Re: Double build failures

[Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>]

On May 04, 2012, at 07:16 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote:

>On 4 May 2012 19:06, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org> wrote:
>> ok. what is the relationship between 'distribute' & 'packaging'?
>
>Let's see if I get all these right:
>
>distutils: basic packaging functionality, part of the Python standard library
>setuptools: third party module to add functionality that distutils lacked
>distribute: continuation of setuptools after setuptools development stopped
>packaging, aka distutils2: Improving on distutils but not backwards
>compatible, will be integrated into the standard library for Python
>3.3, and might then make setuptools/distribute obsolete.
>
>Please correct me if I've got any of that wrong.

Well done!  A few minor corrections.

- packaging is available in Python 3.3 (alpha) now.

- distutils2 is the backport of packaging to older Pythons, available in the
  Cheeseshop.

Actually, the Cheeseshop entry has a pretty good explanation:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Distutils2

Cheers,
-Barry