Tarek Ziade: Packaging talk at Pycon 2011

I have submitted a talk for Distutils at Pycon U.S. 2011 under the “Extreme Talks” section. The idea is to do a deep-dive talk on how Distutils2 works and how to use it in your projects.

Here’s the summary of what I am planning to present:

-  Distutils2 presentation and goals
    - Framework
    - Command-driven packaging system
-  Changes from Distutils1
    - R.I.P. setup.py
    - The new metadata fields (PEP 345)
    - versions for your project (PEP 386)
    - PyPI goodies
     - browsing
     - uploading docs
    - What's installed ? what to install ? (PEP 376)
     - The Dependency graph tool
    - Extensibility !
     - commands
     - compilers
-  Pysetup, one command to rule them all
    - install !
    - remove
    - do other things
-  Examples
    - Example 1: A simple Distutils2 project
    - Example 2: Porting your project to Distutils2, and keep it working in Distutils/Setuptools/zc.buildout environments.
    - Example 3: Creating and releasing your own commands and compilers
    - Example 4: Developement process made simple with Distutils2
-  Conclusion
    - Roadmap

If you are thinking about something related to Distutils that you would like to see discussed during this talk, let me know here !