distutils2 — Packaging support

The distutils2 package provides support for building, packaging, distributing and installing additional projects into a Python installation. Projects may be include modules, extension modules, packages and scripts. distutils2 also provides building blocks for other packaging systems that do not use the command system.

This manual is the reference documentation for those standalone building blocks and for extending Distutils2. If you’re looking for the user-centric guides to install a project or package your own code, head to See also.

• 1. Working with versions
  • 1.1. NormalizedVersion
  • 1.2. Dealing with version predicates
• 2. Metadata
  • 2.1. Reading metadata
  • 2.2. Writing metadata
  • 2.3. Conflict checking and best version
• 3. Dependency Graph Builder Module
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. API
  • 3.3. Example Usage
• 4. Query Python Package Indexes (PyPI)
  • 1. High level API to Query indexes
  • 2. Representation of informations coming from indexes
  • 3. Querying indexes via the simple index API
  • 4. Query indexes via XML-RPC
• 5. Test Framework
  • 5.1. PyPIServer
  • 5.2. PyPIServerTestCase
  • 5.3. The use_pypi_server decorator

See also

Distributing Python Projects

The manual for developers of Python projects who want to package and distribute them. This describes how to use distutils2 to make projects easily found and added to an existing Python installation.

Installing Python Projects

A user-centered manual which includes information on adding projects into an existing Python installation. You do not need to be a Python programmer to read this manual.