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A history of Python packaging. A comprehensive history by Martijn Faassen, who argues that the existing set of tools tools works fine and has been working fine for several years.

Posted 10th November 2009 at 8:48 pm

Tagged distutils, martijnfaassen, packaging, python, setuptools

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Python 3 comes with a packaging framework called Distutils. Distutils is many things: a build tool (for you), an installation tool, a package metadata format, and more. packaging boxes
Mike - 15th September 2011 20:03 - #

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