Sessions at DjangoCon Europe 2011 about Python on Monday 6th June

Distributing Django apps with standard Python packaging tools has for a long time been dreaded by the community for good reasons -- from bad documentation and confusing conventions to missing integration with Django standards and unreliable infrastructure.

In this talk I show what is being done to fix that and how you can profit from it:

• The past of Python packaging, brief historical overview
• Common pitfalls and gotchas when releasing Python software
• Integration with everyday software development
• The future of packaging with Distutils2 and Depot