Packaging no.3

From mtlpython

Presentation

Sprint on the Python packaging tools and libraries.

The sprint will take place at Brasseurs Numériques' office at 1124 Marie-Anne on 2010-05-22 starting at 14h and going as long as there are people standing.

Bring your laptop or make a pairing agreement on the mailing list before hand. Attendance is limited to 12 sprinters so please RSVP below.

Who will attend

• Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
• Yannick Gingras
• Cyril Robert
• Pior Bartida
• Michael Mulich (virtually attending)
• Nicolas Cadou
• Tarek Ziadé (remote)
• George Peristerakis
• Jean Schurger

Possible tasks

Here's a list of possible tasks (more to come) (proposed by tarek):

• Make Distribute PEP 345 compatible (ygingras and ncadou)
• Add a sandbox tool in Distutils2
• Write a distutils -> distutils2 converter
• Make virtualenv install Distutils2

Other possible things:

• Work on pypi (Mathieu Leduc-Hamel et Cyril Robert)

Development workflow:

• read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Packaging
• fork the project at bitbucket
• ask for a pull request once the feature is done
• for distribute, switch to the `0.6-maintenance` branch