# About the Packaging category **URL:** \ **Category:** Packaging\ **Created:** [November 3, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/about-the-packaging-category/365 "2018-11-03T17:04:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EWDurbin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/ewdurbin/32/3103_2.png) [@EWDurbin](https://discuss.python.org/u/EWDurbin)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/about-the-packaging-category/365/1 "2018-11-03T17:04:01Z")
A place to talk about packaging Python software and the tooling to make that possible. Use this category for discussions relating to anything packaging in Python, including but not limited to: - [PyPI](https://pypi.org/) / [Warehouse](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse) - [pip](https://github.com/pypa/pip) - [setuptools](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools) - [wheel](https://github.com/pypa/wheel) - [virtualenv](https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv) - [Pipenv](https://github.com/pypa/pipenv) - [conda-forge](https://conda-forge.org) For bugs and similar issues, please use the relevant issue tracker for the project in question. ---
**Author:** ![EWDurbin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/ewdurbin/32/3103_2.png) [@EWDurbin](https://discuss.python.org/u/EWDurbin)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/about-the-packaging-category/365/2 "2018-11-03T17:04:54Z")
@dstufft can you provide the correct copy for “about” this category? ---
**Author:** ![dstufft](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/dstufft/32/23_2.png) [@dstufft](https://discuss.python.org/u/dstufft)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/about-the-packaging-category/365/3 "2018-11-03T19:46:50Z")
A place to talk about packaging Python software and the tooling to make that possible. Use this category for discussions relating to anything packaging in Python, including but not limited to: - [PyPI](https://pypi.org/) / [Warehouse](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse) - [pip](https://github.com/pypa/pip) - [setuptools](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools) - [wheel](https://github.com/pypa/wheel). - [virtualenv](https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv) - [Pipenv](https://github.com/pypa/pipenv) For bugs and similar issues, please use the relevant issue tracker for the project in question. ---
**Author:** ![willingc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/willingc/32/20_2.png) [@willingc](https://discuss.python.org/u/willingc)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/about-the-packaging-category/365/4 "2019-02-12T20:54:29Z")
@dstufft Are you cool with me adding miniconda, conda, conda-forge as an addiitonal bullet? ---
**Author:** ![dstufft](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/dstufft/32/23_2.png) [@dstufft](https://discuss.python.org/u/dstufft)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/about-the-packaging-category/365/5 "2019-02-12T20:59:41Z")
If the people involved in those projects want their discussion to happen here sure that’s fine. I created this category as a replacement to distutils-sig so I just kind of copied over the projects that typically get discussed on distutils-sig. I probably wouldn’t want to add them if they don’t want discussion about their tools to happen here though… so I guess ask them? ---
**Author:** ![scopatz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/scopatz/32/332_2.png) [@scopatz](https://discuss.python.org/u/scopatz)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/about-the-packaging-category/365/6 "2019-03-11T19:07:09Z")
As far as conda-forge goes, we’d love to discuss Python packaging issues here.