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# Wrap up of the distutils2 paris' sprint
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Finally, thanks to a bunch of people that helped me to pay my train and
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bus tickets, I've made it to paris for the distutils2 sprint.
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They have been a bit more than 10 people to come during the sprint, and
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it was very productive. Here's a taste of what we've been working on:
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- the datafiles, a way to specify and to handle the installation of
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files which are not python-related (pictures, manpages and so on).
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- mkgcfg, a tool to help you to create a setup.cfg in minutes (and
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with funny examples)
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- converters from setup.py scripts. We do now have a piece of code
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which reads your current setup.py file and fill in some fields in
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the setup.cfg for you.
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- a compatibility layer for distutils1, so it can read the setup.cfg
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you will wrote for distutils2 :-)
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- the uninstaller, so it's now possible to uninstall what have been
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installed by distutils2 (see PEP 376)
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- the installer, and the setuptools compatibility layer, which will
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allow you to rely on setuptools' based distributions (and there are
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plenty of them\!)
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- The compilers, so they are more flexible than they were. Since
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that's an obscure part of the code for distutils2 commiters (it
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comes directly from the distutils1 ages), having some guys who
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understood the problematics here was a must.
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Some people have also tried to port their packaging from distutils1 to
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distutils2. They have spotted a number of bugs and made some
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improvements to the code, to make it more friendly to use.
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I'm really pleased to see how newcomers went trough the code, and
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started hacking so fast. I must say it wasn't the case when we started
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to work on distutils1 so that's a very good point: people now can hack
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the code quicker than they could before.
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Some of the features here are not *completely* finished yet, but are on
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the tubes, and will be ready for a release (hopefully) at the end of the
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week.
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Big thanks to logilab for hosting (and sponsoring my train ticket) and
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providing us food, and to bearstech for providing some money for
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breakfast and bears^Wbeers.
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Again, a big thanks to all the people who gave me money to pay the
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transport, I really wasn't expecting such thing to happen :-)
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