Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of TalkPackaging

Timestamp:

Mar 13, 2010, 1:11:11 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

davidf

Comment:

Simon's notes on the future of Python packaging

TalkPackaging

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 = Talk on Packaging 2010-03-13 =
 
+== General Packaging ==
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 These are the notes from a talk at [wiki:Meeting20100313] by David Fraser on Python packaging for Fedora, RHEL, Windows, etc
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-== General Packaging ==
 
  * We have source code for Python libraries, applications and tools
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  * We found we had to hack `distutils` a lot with derived code to make it all work
  * Beware of dependencies from `setup.py` - somebody may be trying to do something that doesn't need the dependency, so trap `ImportError`s etc
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+== Future of Python packaging ==
+
+Simon Cross's description of where things are going:
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+ * Tarek Ziade is working towards producing a decent standard packaging library for Python, codenamed `distutils2.
+ * This basically replaces things as follows:
+   * `distutils2` replaces `distutils`, as well as adding various things from `setuptools`: `egg-info`, recording installed files (for uninstall etc), entry points, and version info
+   * `Distribute` replaces the rest of `setuptools` (focus on '''building''')
+   * `pip` replaces `easy_install` (focus on '''install/uninstall''')
+ * The idea is that `distutils2` will be included in the standard library and will be extensible enough for `Distribute` (or anyone similar library) to produce building tools, or `pip` (or any similar library) to produce installation tools
+ * Thus the Linux distros will be able to make their own tools to integrate with their packaging systems (if they so desire), on top of the standard `distutils2`
+ * To produce ''low quality'' `deb` files there are a few options - `stdeb` is the most actively maintained and useful one at the moment
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