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distutils-extra in the "Non-PyPA Projects" section #228

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damonlynch opened this issue Feb 22, 2016 · 1 comment
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distutils-extra in the "Non-PyPA Projects" section #228

damonlynch opened this issue Feb 22, 2016 · 1 comment
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Distutils-extra is useful for developers who wish to deploy their applications or libraries on Linux.

https://launchpad.net/python-distutils-extra

As the team responsible for Distutils-extras states "Enables you to easily integrate gettext support, themed icons and scrollkeeper based documentation into Python's distutils". It can save the developer & packager plenty of time by largely automating some of the steps that are critical for a well-packaged project. For example, it automates the translation of appdata.xml and .desktop files. It integrates with both setuptools and distutils.

Distutils-extra is widely used and is in the repositories of all major Linux distributions, and is actively maintained.

Unfortunately distutils-extra's primary documentation is found in its source code, with only a modest README and even smaller FAQ, and no real up-to-date documentation outside of its repository.
@brainwane brainwane added type: enhancement A self-contained enhancement or new feature help wanted labels Feb 2, 2020
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If anyone wants to work on this issue: you would find some basic information about distutils-extra (links to source code, issue tracker, and documentation), and write a sentence or two summarizing what it is and why it might be used. Then you would look at https://packaging.python.org/key_projects/#non-pypa-projects , which you edit using the file source/key_projects.rst, and add an entry in the Non-PyPA Projects section.

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