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Author eric.araujo
Recipients alexis, dstufft, eric.araujo, lyda, ncoghlan, tarek
Date 2014-03-12.22:27:00
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Distutils2 development is stopped.

tl;dr: keep using setuptools and pip for now, don’t use distutils2.

Distutils2 tried to be all things to all people; Python core developers and developers of packaging tools have a different strategy to improve packaging. First, various features are discussed and integrated into Python on their own, such as namespace packages and virtual environments (Python 3.3). Second, a new format is defined for binary distibutions (wheel). Third, pip is blessed as de facto standard installer and installed with Python (3.4). Ongoing, new PEPs are in progress to make version numbers more robust, metadata more comprehensive, wheels usable on more platforms, build tools more flexible, etc. Other efforts like conda, bento, hashdist or pyinstaller may serve different needs of specific Python communities better.
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2014-03-12 22:27:01eric.araujosetrecipients: + eric.araujo, ncoghlan, tarek, alexis, dstufft, lyda
2014-03-12 22:27:01eric.araujosetmessageid: <1394663221.05.0.069500863436.issue17281@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2014-03-12 22:27:01eric.araujolinkissue17281 messages
2014-03-12 22:27:00eric.araujocreate