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Python Distutils-SIG

Charter

The Distutils-SIG exists to discuss the design, implementation, and maintenance of a suite of module distribution utilities for Python. These utilities will take the form of some standard modules, probably grouped in the 'distutils' package, for building, packaging, and installing third-party modules. This includes both modules written purely in Python and extension modules written in C/C++.

Other topics of interest:

  • encouraging module developers to write test suites by having a standard place for them in module distributions
  • ditto for documentation -- although this is probably the job of the doc-sig, it would be nice to tie the two together at some point
  • a standard for representing and comparing version numbers
  • social engineering in general, ie. convincing module developers to start using the system
  • the possible need for tweaks to the configure/build process for Python itself, and a place to hold configuration information (possibly a new built-in module, 'sys.config')