Packaging no.6

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Presentation

Sprint on the Python packaging tools and libraries.

The sprint will take place at Brasseurs Numériques' office at 1124 Marie-Anne on 2010-07-15 starting at 18h30 EDT (UTC-2) 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.

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Who will attend

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How to prepare

  • read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Packaging
  • create a bitbucket account
  • ask on the mailing list for the commit right on the Montréal-Python repo
  • pick a task before hand and discuss it on the distutils2 mailing list
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Possible tasks

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

Other possible things:

Tasks proposed by Martin v. Löwis

  • Implement support for PEP 381 in distribute and setuptools:
    • detect networking issues with pypi.python.org, by means of outright networking errors and timeouts.
    • integrate a fallback algorithm, perhaps based on a randomized order My current proposal is that the mirrors are called [bcde...].mirrors.pypi.python.org (maybe this can be shortened to [bcde...].pypi.python.org); a.mirrors is PyPI itself. If there is a desire to find out what mirrors exist, I could also provide last.mirrors, pointing (by cname) to the alphabetically last mirror.
    • try connecting to the mirror, expecting networking problems again.
    • validate consistency of the mirror. There are multiple levels of that, e.g a) look whether last-modified is reasonably current b) validate the signature on each page being downloaded c) validate the md5sum of each file being downloaded.
    • support serverkey rollover
  • other PyPI issues

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

Montreal Python branches:

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