> Okay, I'll look at these - thanks. Is there somewhere online where > design notes and ideas are being collected / summarised?
Not really. * The bug report about config/cache/etc. paths API contains most of the discussion and links to python-dev threads. This is not related to packaging. * The bug report about configure links to the wiki I used last summer and my repository with the code; a few things are only in Tarek’s head. * The thinking about sysconfig.py, sysconfig.cfg and _sysconfig.cpython3.3.so is scattered on two or three bug reports and https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distutils2/src/tip/docs/design/wiki.rst . > It's hard to tell which parts of e.g. notmyidea.org and > python-distribute.org are still current. Yeah. Last summer, I pulled from all GSoC students repos and merged the docs so that notmyidea could always have all doc, even though not all the code was in the official repo. Then Alexis changed it to use the doc from the main repo, and then I think switched to readthedocs. python-distribute is/was lead by the distribute group, which overlaps with the packaging (distutils2) fellowship. Its packaging guide was not updated for a distutils2-in-the-stdlib world. I could make a new landing page on the Python to explain the status of distutils2, summarize future directions, tell where to find the docs, link to the existing pages like http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Contributing and http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/FixingBugs . Do you think that would be better? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
