Distutils and Distribute status (part #1)  Someone told me on
IRC that it's currently hard to follow what's going on in the
packaging front. The truth is that it's almost impossible if you
don't read all mails posted in Distutils-SIG.  So here's a quick
wrap-up that can save you some time if you are not reading
Distutils-SIG.  PEP 345 - Metadata 1.2  We are almost done with
the update of PEP 345. This PEP is describing the Metadata
fields for a distribution, that get added in the file named PKG-
INFO. This file is inserted in all your distribution and also
published at PyPI. It's the ID card of your project.  We are
adding these fields in the metadata: - Maintainer : the
maintainer's name - Maintainer-email : the maintainer's email -
Requires-Python : What Python versions are compatible with this
distribution - Requires-External : A list of external
dependencies, like "libpng", "libxslt" - Requires-Dist : A list
of Python dependencies, from the names founded at PyPI. like
"zope.interface" - Provides-Dist : A l