[Visualpython-users] Distutils metadata

[Arthur <ajs...@op...>]

Those with an interest in the installation and packaging thread that has
been undertaken here might want to check out the following feature of
Python2.3, now released in alpha 2 version.

From the "what's new":

a.. Package index and metadata for distutils. This is support of the Python
catalog, now open for business at python.org/pypi. (PEP 301)

Essentially this is the first step in what is hoped to be an online
cataloguing mechanism for Python moudles, extensions, and applications. The
mechanics seemed to just adding a line ow two to one's setup.py and using it
to "register" one's distribution.

IMO, another good reason for VPython to consider conversion to the distutils
methodolgies, ASAP.

Art