If you are interested in Python packaging standards and not subscribed to the distributions list (where cross-distro collaboration happens), now would be a good time to do so :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ben Finney <ben+freedesktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:21 AM Subject: Python package distribution standards To: distributions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Distutils-Sig@xxxxxxxxxx Howdy all, I'm cross-posting between the Python distutils discussion forum and the Freedesktop distributions discussion forum. If you think any OS-specific discussion forums need to be involved, please ask a representative to join one or more of these forums so the discussion doesn't get too attenuated. For a number of weeks now, the Python package distribution standards have been undergoing intensive scrutiny in the wake of much face-to-face discussion at Pycon 2009. Many goals are being juggled in an attempt to get a beneficial result for everyone affected by these standards. The discussion has reached a point of some “open questions” <URL:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/105237> on the current draft of PEP 376 <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/>, which has re-raised the issue of how Python distribution standards could be improved with regard to OS distribution packaging requirements. I've made a case for metadata that would be beneficial to OS packagers <URL:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/105237/focus=105270>, but I am not very cognizant of the needs of specific OS packaging systems. We need input from others who know and care about how Python packages should fit into specific operating system package management systems. If you feel you have constructive input on how Python's package distribution metadata can be improved for the needs of OS packagers (along with other needs being targeted by such metadata), please read the standards drafts, join this discussion, and weigh in now while the topic is hot. -- \ “The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial | `\ television and could not exist in its present form without it.” | _o__) —John Kenneth Galbraith, _The New Industrial State_, 1967 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
