>>> The current effort seems to be distlib, Vinay's project to gather the >>> "good parts" of packaging and distutils as a library API: >>> http://packages.python.org/distlib/ >>> (there's an active bitbucket repo) > See >> https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/distlib/ >> for the latest code, which is periodically pushed to >> http://hg.python.org/distlib/ >> The latest documentation is at >> https://distlib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ >>what about the actual packaging issues from the cypthon bugtracker? should we try to port the ones that apply to https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/distlib/ ? Thanks and Happy 2013! francis