On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am lacking of time right now to finish an important task before 3.2 >> final is out: > > If anyone else got at all confused by Tarek's email, s/3.x/3.x+1/ and > it will all make sense (the mentioned release numbers in the 3.x > series are all one lower than they should be - packaging is planned > for 3.3, but a standalone library will allow feedback to be gathered > from 2.x and 3.2 users before the API is 'locked in' for 3.3).
Oh yeah sorry for the version mess up :) > How far has packaging diverged from distutils2, though? Wasn't that > the planned venue for any backports in order to avoid name conflicts? The plan is to provide under earlier versions of Python a standalone project that does not use the "packaging" namespace, but the "distutils2" namespace. IOW, the task to do is: 1/ copy packaging and all its stdlib dependencies in a standalone project 2/ rename packaging to distutils2 3/ make it work under older 2.x and 3.x (2.x would be the priority) <==== 4/ release it, promote its usage 5/ consolidate the API with the feedback received I realize it's by far the less interesting task to do in packaging, but it's by far one of the most important Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
