On Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > > Yeah but we've been too ambitious. > > Here's my proposal - actually it's Nick's proposal but I want to make > sure we're on the same > page wrt steps, and I think that addresses Antoine concerns > > 1. create a new package, called pkglib (or whatever), located at hg > .python.org (http://python.org) as a new project that just strictly contains : > > - the PEP implementations > - non controversial features like files parser, pypi index browser etc > > it's doable - since that's what we have done in distutils2. the > modules that implements those PEPs are standalone > > Let's avoid by all means to put the old distutils command logic there. > > Let's have a strict process on every new thing we're adding there. > > > 2. make pkglib python 2 *and* python 3 compatible - natively, not w/ 2to3 > > > 3. make distutils2, distribute, pip, bento, etc. use that and try to > share as many bits as possible > > > 4. ask each project to pour in pkglib anything that can be reused by others I started messing around with yanking some of the parts of distutils2 (things I've been calling packaging primitives for lack of a better word). Don't have anything particularly usable yet, but the approach you're talking about is similar to what I started to do.
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