[Visualpython-users] Distutils metadata

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.

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