Packaging doc: Add missing index file, improve main page description.

Also promote notices from distutils doc to deprecation boxes.

Doc/distutils/index.rst

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ the module developer's point of view, describing how to use the Distutils to
 make Python modules and extensions easily available to a wider audience with
 very little overhead for build/release/install mechanics.
 
+.. deprecated:: 3.3
+   :mod:`packaging` replaces Distutils.  See :ref:`packaging-index` and
+   :ref:`packaging-install-index`.
+
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
    :numbered:
@@ -36,9 +40,3 @@ following the above guidelines:
 .. toctree::
 
    install.rst
-
-
-.. seealso::
-
-   :ref:`packaging-index` and :ref:`packaging-install-index`
-      Documentation of Packaging, the new version of Distutils.

Doc/install/index.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+.. _packaging-install-index:
+
+******************************
+  Installing Python Projects
+******************************
+
+:Author: Greg Ward and Packaging contributors
+:Release: |version|
+:Date: |today|
+
+.. TODO: Fill in XXX comments
+
+.. The audience for this document includes people who don't know anything
+   about Python and aren't about to learn the language just in order to
+   install and maintain it for their users, i.e. system administrators.
+   Thus, I have to be sure to explain the basics at some point:
+   sys.path and PYTHONPATH at least. Should probably give pointers to
+   other docs on "import site", PYTHONSTARTUP, PYTHONHOME, etc.
+
+   Finally, it might be useful to include all the material from my "Care
+   and Feeding of a Python Installation" talk in here somewhere. Yow!
+
+.. topic:: Abstract
+
+   This document describes Packaging from the end-user's point of view: it
+   explains how to extend the functionality of a standard Python installation by
+   building and installing third-party Python modules and applications.
+
+
+This guide is split into a simple overview  followed by a longer presentation of
+the :program:`pysetup` script, the Python package management tool used to
+build, distribute, search for, install, remove and list Python distributions.
+
+.. TODO integrate install and pysetup instead of duplicating
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+   :numbered:
+
+   install
+   pysetup
+   pysetup-config
+   pysetup-servers
+
+
+.. seealso::
+
+   :ref:`packaging-index`
+      The manual for developers of Python projects who want to package and
+      distribute them. This describes how to use :mod:`packaging` to make
+      projects easily found and added to an existing Python installation.
+
+   :mod:`packaging`
+      A library reference for developers of packaging tools wanting to use
+      standalone building blocks like :mod:`~packaging.version` or
+      :mod:`~packaging.metadata`, or extend Packaging itself.

Doc/library/distutils.rst

@@ -12,21 +12,24 @@ additional modules into a Python installation.  The new modules may be either
 100%-pure Python, or may be extension modules written in C, or may be
 collections of Python packages which include modules coded in both Python and C.
 
-This package is discussed in two separate chapters:
+.. deprecated:: 3.3
+   :mod:`packaging` replaces Distutils.  See :ref:`packaging-index` and
+   :ref:`packaging-install-index`.
 
 
+User documentation and API reference are provided in another document:
+
 .. seealso::
 
    :ref:`distutils-index`
       The manual for developers and packagers of Python modules.  This describes
       how to prepare :mod:`distutils`\ -based packages so that they may be
-      easily installed into an existing Python installation.
+      easily installed into an existing Python installation.  If also contains
+      instructions for end-users wanting to install a distutils-based package,
+      :ref:`install-index`.
 
-   :ref:`install-index`
-      An "administrators" manual which includes information on installing
-      modules into an existing Python installation.  You do not need to be a
-      Python programmer to read this manual.
 
+.. trick to silence a Sphinx warning
 
 .. toctree::
    :hidden:

Doc/tools/sphinxext/indexcontent.html

@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@
       <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("c-api/index") }}">Python/C API</a><br/>
          <span class="linkdescr">reference for C/C++ programmers</span></p>
       <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("install/index") }}">Installing Python Projects</a><br/>
-         <span class="linkdescr">information for installers &amp; sys-admins</span></p>
+         <span class="linkdescr">finding and installing modules and applications</span></p>
       <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("packaging/index") }}">Distributing Python Projects</a><br/>
-         <span class="linkdescr">sharing modules with others</span></p>
+         <span class="linkdescr">packaging and distributing modules and applications</span></p>
       <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("documenting/index") }}">Documenting Python</a><br/>
          <span class="linkdescr">guide for documentation authors</span></p>
       <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("faq/index") }}">FAQs</a><br/>