[Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Sun Apr 23 05:19:37 CEST 2006


On Sunday 23 April 2006 11:43, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Maybe we need something that's the equivalent of alien (rpm -> dpkg
> converter), so that given an egg, one can easily get a native
> installer for that egg.

An 'eggconvert' that used the existing bdist_foo machinery to build 
system specific packages would probably be an ok summer of code 
project, no?


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