This page describes a possible Summer of Code project for Distutils2

Contact: Tarek Ziadé <tarek@ziade.org>

GSOC Tasks

• XML-RPC client for distutils 2: http://bugs.python.org/issue8190

• Make it possible to use setup.cfg to describe all the metatadata: http://bugs.python.org/issue8252

• Describe the resources files and the python files using a [resources] section in setup.cfg : http://bugs.python.org/issue8253

• write a configure command: http://bugs.python.org/issue8254

• write a tutorial: http://bugs.python.org/issue8255

• promote and evangelize Distutils2 – This will consist of helping python project to switch/adopt Distutils2. We will define a list of targets at the beginning and the student will be in charge of helping them switching to Distutils2 if they want.

• add a post/pre commit hook for install and uninstall commands: http://bugs.python.org/issue8312

• make sure distutils2 works under Py3
• move the code from distribute to distutils2 (upload_doc, use_2to3)

• Implement pkgutil APIs described in PEP 376 : http://bugs.python.org/issue8250 -- work started by people in the community already.

• add a test command: http://bugs.python.org/issue8324

Coding task -- Deadline: April 17th

Write a small Python application that will do the following:

• provide a XML-RPC client that knows how to list all releases of a given project at PyPI (no need to implement the whole XML-RPC spec, but think about this as something we can reuse later during the GSOC, to implement the whole XML-RPC spec)
• provide a script called "install_distribution.py" that will be used to download the distribution and install it, using "python setup.py install"

The CLI can be used like this:

  $ install_distribution.py Foo
  Founded versions of Foo:
        1.1
        1.2
  Which version do you want to install (hit enter for None) ? :

• or :

  $ install_distribution.py Foo 1.1 

The code should be unit-tested, and documented. The goal is not to make you write something you don't know how to write, but to see how you write/organize code to help me select the student. So, I am available online for any question help.