SummerOfCode/Distutils2

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This page describes tasks for the 2010 Summer of Code. Students and mentors are listed on the Distutils2 teams page.

Contact: Tarek Ziadé <tarek@ziade.org>

GSOC Tasks

PEP 376 support

Implement pkgutil APIs described in PEP 376 : http://bugs.python.org/issue8250 -- work started by people in the community already. (focus on speed with benches)
Implement a dependency-graph builder
Add basic PEP 376 support in Distribute [and Pip is possible]

Assigned to Josip.

Installer / Uninstaller, PyPI

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 Distutils2: http://bugs.python.org/issue8190

Assigned to Alexis.

Distutils new commands

Add a post/pre-commit hook for install and uninstall commands: http://bugs.python.org/issue8312 see if it can be generic.
enhance the check command (sanity tests)
Move the upload_doc command from distribute
add an optional call to upload_doc into upload
Add a test command: http://bugs.python.org/issue8324

Assigned to Konrad.

Distutils build tool

Study 4Suite' configure command
Write a configure command: http://bugs.python.org/issue8254
Make install and build optionally use the configure file
Make it possible to use setup.cfg to describe all the metadata: http://bugs.python.org/issue8252
Describe the resources files and the Python files using a [resources] or [packages] [py_modules]
section in setup.cfg: http://bugs.python.org/issue8253
make setup.py optional (commands would be called through a -m call)

Assigned to Éric.

Py3 support

Move the use_2to3 command from distribute
Make sure distutils2 works under Py3 using 2to3

Assigned to Zubin.

Tasks for all

Write a small tutorial in docs/ for each feature you add

Misc

complete tutorial : http://bugs.python.org/issue8255
Promote and evangelize Distutils2–This will consist of helping python project to switch to/adopt Distutils2. We will define a list of targets at the beginning and the student will be in charge of helping them switching to Distutils2 if they want.