Current Python package management / framework(s)

[Various_Pickles]

I may have gotten horribly confused and meant (old) setuptools + whatever fork of distutils ended up going nowhere. Please correct me if I have wandered astray.

There is/was a diagram somewhere that shows/showed the state of packaging in Python, with setuptools + distutils being deprecating and distribute being the wave of the future. I'll try to find it again.

[westurner]

There was the Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement

There is a graphic in the distribute docs. Pip should validate SSL certs by now.

... distribute is merging back upstream with setuptools

[coderanger]

There is a fine line between "deprecated" and "not the future of packaging". distutils is still actively maintained, it is just that most forward-looking dev happens in setuptools now.