[Python-Dev] Distutils2 next steps

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 00:02, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> On 21.02.2011 08:41, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Now that Python 3.2 is out, I am planning to do the following with Distutils2:
>>>
>>> 1 - release a new alpha before Pycon for community feedback
>>> 2 - add distutils2 back in the trunk, along with the changes in
>>> pkgutil and sysconfig
>>> 3 - continue the ongoing work in Distutils2 to prepare the first
>>> Python 3.3 release
>>>
>>> If you want me to give more details here on what is going to be done
>>> precisely in the various stdlib parts, let me know.
>>
>> I think I'm also speaking for the prospective release manager of 3.3
>> by saying yes, please, details would be nice, but not necessarily
>> *right* now. :)
>
> It's easy enough to give right now:
>
> - pkgutil will gain all the API that are implementing PEP 376 -- a py2
> version of this module that has them can be seen at
> http://hg.python.org/distutils2/file/tip/distutils2/_backport/pkgutil.py
>  for the moment
>
> - sysconfig will need to have two things:
>
>  - create via the Makefile a "_sysconfig" module, so the API stop to
> read data dynamically in pyconfig.h and Makefile at runtime
>  - [to be validated-discussed] an easier way to configure the
> installation paths. the current plan is to use a sysconfig.cfg file
> that may be changed. This file will be global to Python, but also
> possibly local to a user or a project --
> http://hg.python.org/distutils2/file/tip/distutils2/_backport/sysconfig.cfg
>
> - distutils2 will be converted to Py3 using 2to3, then included in
> Lib/ -- the code base is ready for this, besides a few spots.
>
> - distutils2 will continue to be released as a standalone project from
> 2.4 to 3.2. Probably by using 3to2, but I have not tried the tool yet.

So does this mean that primary development will move to py3k and then
you will simply push changes downstream to the distutils2 project for
separate releases? Or are you going to go the reverse route?

-Brett

>
>
> Cheers
> Tarek
>
>>
>> Georg
>>
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