[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:22:19 -0700, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Sridhar
> Ratnakumar<SridharR at activestate.com> wrote:
>> Other than easy_install/pip, there is also PyPM which is being  
>> developed at
>> ActiveState. PyPM is the Python package manager much like what ppm is  
>> for
>> ActivePerl.
>>
>
> Great ! besides the RECORD file, anything remark on the PEP from a
> PyPM point of view ?

I'll shortly send an email I composed regarding this.

> Once Paul has finished to work on the PEP 302 part of the prototype,
> maybe we could try it out
> on PyPM to see how it fits ?

I took a look at PEP 302 and Paul's new implemention in pkgutil2.py

   http://bitbucket.org/tarek/pep376/src/tip/pkgutil2.py

And yes, I'd happy to try the new pkgutil API on PyPM .. keeping  
interoperability with pip/easy_install installed packages in mind.

-srid