First public release of toydist
Toydist 0.0.2 has just been announced, and since this is the first public release since I announced it at Scipy India 2009, I thought it would be the occasion of summarizing the current status of...
View ArticleYaku, a simple python build system for toydist
[EDIT] Of course, just after having written this post, I came across two interesting projects: mem and fbuild. That’s what I get for not having Internet for weeks now … Both projects are based on...
View ArticleBento (ex-toydist): what’s coming for 0.0.3
A lot has happened feature-wise since the 0.0.2 release of toydist. This is a short summary of what is about to come in the 0.0.3 release. Toydist renamed to bento I have finally found a not too sucky...
View ArticleBento 0.0.4 released !
I have just released the new version of Bento, 0.0.4. You can get it on github as usual Bento itself did not change too much, except for the support of sub-packages and a few things. But now bento...
View ArticleA few remarks on distutils2
Disclaimer: I am working on a project which may be seen as a concurrent to distutils2 efforts, and I am quite biased against the existing packaging tools in python. On the other hand, I know distutils...
View ArticleBento at Pycon2011 and what’s coming in bento 0.0.5
I could not spend much time (if any) on bento the last few weeks of 2010, but I fortunately got back some time to work on it this month. It is a good time to describe a bit what I hope will happen in...
View ArticleAdding a distutils compatibility layer to bento
From the beginning, it was clear that one of the major hurdle for bento would be transition from distutils. This is a hard issue for any tool trying to improve existing ones, but even more so for...
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