[PEAK] Distutils dependencies sprint at PyCon?

[Patrick Phalen]

You might benefit from looking at gentoo linux's Portage/ebuild setup for 
ideas (written in Python). It's the best-designed distribution/dependancy 
system I've used - far better than *BSD portupgrade and Debian apt.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-user.xml

On Friday 27 February 2004 11:56 am, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> Bob Ippolito and I have been talking about working on distutils dependency
> support while at PyCon.  The subject has recently come up on both the
> Zope3-Dev and Twisted mailing lists, with respect to being able to:
>
> 1) break up monolithic systems (PEAK, Zope, Twisted) into smaller package
> sets with dependencies
>
> 2) allow dependencies on other systems (e.g. Twisted using PyProtocols,
> PEAK using zope.publisher, etc.)
>
> 3) support painless install for end users (single command to download and
> install "everything needed") even at the cost of a little pain for the
> packager(s).
>
> 4) allow dependencies on packages that were packaged with the distutils,
> but *not* specifically designed to work with the dependency system.  In
> other words, if I want to depend on package X, I should not need to bug
> package X's author, I should be able to "just do it".
>
> 5) Support Python 2.2, while not requiring changes to the distutils, but
> being a possible candidate for upgrades to the distutils in 2.4.
>
> If there's a group that would like to sprint to produce working
> deliverables for one or more aspects of this problem area (and I think
> PIMP/PackMan shows that solutions are within reach), I'd like to get some
> schedule commitments so I can plan a trip.  I wasn't originally planning to
> go to PyCon this year, but I *will* come if it means we can get this thing
> implemented.
>
> If there is sufficient interest, let's take this to an appropriate mailing
> list (perhaps distutils-sig?) and Wiki to put together a detailed set of
> stories, as long as we can prioritize the list according to the needs of
> the folks who will be doing the development.
>
> If you're interested in participating in such a sprint, please let me know
> ASAP, so I can make travel arrangements.  Thanks.
>
> (Please reply to me personally rather than to the list(s); I will summarize
> and post an announcement of where to direct further discussion, if there's
> enough interest to get this off the ground.  Thanks!)
>
>
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