Python Module Distribution Utilities extracted from the Python Standard Library

Synchronizing

This project is kept in sync with the code still in stdlib.

From CPython

The original history and attribution of all changes contributed to CPython can be found in the cpython branch. If new commits are added to CPython, they should be synchronized back to this project.

First, create a clone of CPython that only includes the distutils changes. Due to the large size of the CPython repository, this operation is fairly expensive.

git clone https://github.com/python/cpython python-distutils
cd python-distutils
git filter-branch --prune-empty --subdirectory-filter Lib/distutils master

Then, pull those changes into the repository at the cpython branch.

cd $distutils
git checkout cpython
git fetch $python_distutils
git merge FETCH_HEAD

Finally, merge the changes from cpython into master (possibly as a pull request).

To CPython

Merging changes from this repository is easier.

From the CPython repo, cherry-pick the changes from this project.

git -C $distutils format-patch HEAD~2 --stdout | git am --directory Lib

To Setuptools

Simply merge the changes directly into setuptools' repo.