Summer of Code / Distutils 2

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This page describes tasks for the 2010 Summer of Code. Students and mentors are listed on the Distutils2 teams page.

Contact: Tarek Ziadé <tarek@ziade.org>

GSOC Tasks

PEP 376 support

• Implement pkgutil APIs described in PEP 376 : http://bugs.python.org/issue8250 – work started by people in the community already. (focus on speed with benches)

• Implement a dependency-graph builder

• Add basic PEP 376 support in Distribute [and Pip is possible]

Assigned to Josip.

Installer / Uninstaller, PyPI

• Implement Distutils2 APIs described in PEP 376.

• Add the uninstall command.

• think about a basic installer / uninstaller script. (with deps) – similar to pip/easy_install

• in a pypi subpackage;

  • Integrate a module similar to setuptools’ package_index

  • PyPI XML-RPC client for Distutils2: http://bugs.python.org/issue8190

Assigned to Alexis.

Distutils new commands

• Add a post/pre-commit hook for install and uninstall commands: http://bugs.python.org/issue8312 see if it can be generic.

• enhance the check command (sanity tests)

• Move the upload_doc command from distribute

• add an optional call to upload_doc into upload

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

Assigned to Konrad.

Distutils build tool

• Study 4Suite’ configure command

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

• Make install and build optionally use the configure file

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

• Describe the resources files and the Python files using a [resources] or [packages] [py_modules]

  section in setup.cfg: http://bugs.python.org/issue8253

• make setup.py optional (commands would be called through a -m call)

Assigned to Éric.

Py3 support

• Move the use_2to3 command from distribute

• Make sure distutils2 works under Py3 using 2to3

Assigned to Zubin.

Tasks for all

• Write a small tutorial in docs/ for each feature you add

Misc

• complete tutorial : http://bugs.python.org/issue8255

• Promote and evangelize Distutils2–This will consist of helping python project to switch to/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.