Distribute/Functionality

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Functionality

setuptools does many things. Breaking that down into different areas will allow people to contribute to a smaller chunk that they feel familiar with and excited about.

metadata

This is the metadata about the package that’s stored in the egg

Ideas

  • Enhance metadata with an API/ABI version (ABI would mean, changes to file formats and such)

  • Storage of metadata and data with the same API is not great as there’s different storage requirements for each.

  • API for extracting the metadata?

  • Script interface to do the same

egg format

This is the format of metadata + code + data that is zipped up into an egg.

pkg_resources: Library Dependency Manager

This is the functionality that loads libraries of certain versions and runs them,

Ideas

  • Be able to both control version choices programmatically and have a default version

  • Properly handle overlapping dependencies

pkg_resources: Resource Manager

Allow code to import data from an unknown and variable location on the disk.

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#resourcemanager-api

Ideas

  • Ability to retrieve data from outside of the Module (EggTranslations)

  • General data store

  • Ability to access data in different locations per platform and install method

easy_install

Tool that downloads and installs all the dependencies of a package

build

Tool that makes building and installing from source easier

Ideas

  • Able to install to FHS locations or build eggs as desired

  • bdist_* and install should all be terminal targets. bdist_*, for instance, should not depend on install having been run first.