Author Archives: Éric Araujo

A Quick Diff between Distutils and Distutils2

Distutils2, also known as Packaging in the Python 3.3 standard library, is an improved fork of Distutils. Here’s a short review of the main differences between both codebases. User Interface setup.py vs. setup.cfg All the information that used to be … Continue reading

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Final Report: A Distutils2 Summer of Code

Summary of my Google Summer of Code Adding a configure Command This first task gave me the occasion to study the distutils2 codebase. I saw a lot of good ideas in 4Suite’s DistExt modules and took some inspiration from their … Continue reading

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Weekly Report #11: Twice Awesome

Weekly report for the twelfth week of the Google Summer of Code This week I’ve kept on working on several things. I have pushed the new docs organization and some improvements to the main repo. Some mkpkg improvements as well … Continue reading

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Weekly Report #10: Efficient Multitasking

Weekly report for the eleventh week of the Google Summer of Code This week I’ve been working on several things, catching up on nearly everything that I was late for. I attended the Montreal-Python sprint, giving comments and feedback while … Continue reading

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Weekly Report #9: Feeling Low

Weekly report for the tenth week of the Google Summer of Code Report Email I’m starting to get depressed with those reports, since I have to say that I’ve had problems with concentration/focus again and did not do much last … Continue reading

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Weekly Report #8: Midterm

Weekly report for the ninth week of the Google Summer of Code This week I made very little progress on the tasks listed in my last report. I took part virtually in the Montreal sprint, answered questions, made suggestions, reviewed … Continue reading

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Weekly Report #7: Ecstatic Metadata

Weekly report for the eighth week of the Google Summer of Code What I did Continued improving documentation and minor things Added code to support the metadata section in setup.py Started to add tests for that Had good chats about … Continue reading

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Weekly Report #6: New Energy, Old Issues

Weekly report for the seventh week of the Google Summer of Code This week has started with a phone call with Tarek which answered most of the open questions I add about a lot of things. Thank you for being … Continue reading

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Weekly Report #5: Slowdown

Weekly report for the sixth week of the Google Summer of Code We’ve been sending weekly emails and having weekly IRC meeting but my weblog has not been updated; fixing that now by copying the emails. This week I’ve continued … Continue reading

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Mini-Sprint

Alexis traveled through my city last week-end and came say hi yesterday. We wanted to hold a mini-sprint with people on IRC, here’s a write-up. We started with a task list and did not finish it :) First item was … Continue reading

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