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Packaging improvements that could be funded
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De-duplicate and reorganize setuptools documentation #27

Open xmunoz opened 3 years ago

xmunoz commented 3 years ago

The documentation for setuptools has grown messily over time and is difficult to browse and navigate. Also, the legacy documentation for distutils and the current setuptools docs heavily overlap in content. These references thus trip up even experienced developers who want to understand these fundamental utilities.

We need funding for several weeks of technical writer work and developer review to: