[Distutils] Which Build Distribution Formats do exist?

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

Hi Thomas

On 5 November 2015 at 17:42, Thomas Güttler <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de>
wrote:

> Am 05.11.2015 um 14:12 schrieb Leonardo Rochael Almeida:
> > There are other formats also. This distutils doc explain the "native"
> ones:
> >
> > https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/builtdist.html
>
>
> The PyPUG tells me to use setuptools. Now I feel on unsafe ground if
> I read docs from a tool I don't use (distutils).
>

I don't understand why reading docs from a tool you're not using would make
you "feel on unsafe ground". At worst the docs don't apply to you, at best
they do, but only if you follow them.

In any case, the first line of the document "Building and Distributing
Packages with Setuptools" [1] reads:

 - "Setuptools is a collection of *enhancements* to the Python
distutils...".

So, if you're using setuptools, you are using (an enhanced) distutils. So,
really, no reason to be scared of its documentation.

[1] https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html

Let's see if setuptools has docs:
> https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/search.html?q=Build+Distribution+Format
>
>  ... no matches found.
>
> What's wrong here?
>
> It seems that there are no docs for all supported bdist formats of
> setuptools.
>
Is it too much to want something like this?


No, but wanting won't make it happen. Contributing (or paying someone else
to do it) will.

Cheers,

Leo
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