Python Packaging 2.0: Playing Well With Others
Channel: Linux.conf.au 2014 -- Perth, Australia
Date: 2014-01-17

Presenter(s): Nick Coghlan
URL: https://lca2014.linux.org.au/schedule/30146/view_talk

The Python packaging ecosystem has historically relied on an eclectic mixture of tool specific formats that were poorly documented and difficult to process without running the Python specific tools (at best) or arbitrary code from the Python Package Index (at worst).

In designing version 2.0 of our packaging metadata standard, we have taken several deliberate steps to "play well with others", which will hopefully make it easier to automate the conversion of upstream Python software components to distro policy compliant system packages, as well as to support a rich system of metadata extensions (e.g. for distro specific external dependencies).

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