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Alexis Métaireau 9df3b183b6 Enhanced UI & UX; Added New ISBN Plugin.
- Added the ability to display book cover for the category "Lectures" if ISBN cover is available.
- Moved author's name into a small tag for better hierarchy and readability.
- Implemented a feature to indicate link sizes depending on the number of articles associated with a given tag.
- Implemented a mini footer element displaying an RSS feed icon.
- Improved category display using description dictionary.
- Added a new plugin "isbn_downloader" to fetch ISBN information when needed.
- Included the count of articles for each category.
- Implemented changes for better layout and readability of tags and categories.
- Adjusted the layout of the webpage, improving the overall look of the page.
- Included "requests" in the requirements.txt for supplanting dependencies required by the new plugin and/or features.
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A Distutils2 GSoC

WOW. I've been accepted to be a part of the Google Summer Of Code program, and will work on python distutils2, with a lot of (intersting !) people.

So, it's about building the successor of Distutils2, ie. "the python package manager". Today, there is too many ways to package a python application (pip, setuptools, distribute, distutils, etc.) so there is a huge effort to make in order to make all this packaging stuff interoperable, as pointed out by the PEP 376.

In more details, I'm going to work on the Installer / Uninstaller features of Distutils2, and on a PyPI XML-RPC client for distutils2. Here are the already defined tasks:

  • Implement Distutils2 APIs described in PEP 376.
  • Add the uninstall command.
  • think about a basic installer / uninstaller script. (with deps) -- similar to pip/easy_install
  • in a pypi subpackage;
  • Integrate a module similar to setuptools' package_index'
  • PyPI XML-RPC client for distutils 2: http://bugs.python.org/issue8190

As I'm relatively new to python, I'll need some extra work in order to apply all good practice, among other things that can make a developper-life joyful. I'll post here, each week, my advancement, and my tought about python and especialy python packaging world.