lost interest?

[Chris Barker]

Andrew Kuchling wrote:
>  It would certainly be nice if someone would actually finish
> implementing a bdist_deb target for Distutils, though, so that all
> Python modules can be automatically turned into .debs.

Yes, that would be very nice

> > The same is true for rpm based systems, but let's face it, distutils
> > was created for a reason. It would be very helpful if there could be ONE
> > way for people to do it, on ALL platforms.
> 
> The community seems to disagree on this point.

Come to think of it, I disagree on this point (and I made it!). In fact,
I think what most people want is some sort of installer/package that is
native to their platform, rather than a Python based one. Form above, it
seems to be that this could, in fact, be done with Distutils. If
Distutils can automagically build a complete set of packages for various
p[latforms, we'd be in good shape to set up a one stop shopping
repository.

> Has Suchandra gotten
> any comments on ciphon?

I know I had never heard of it, and still can't find it (the sourceforge
page seems to be dead).

> Will Jason Petrone get any comments on the
> ports-style package manager that he just posted about?  No comments on
> either have ever been posted to the catalog-sig, as far as I can see.

I have to say that I'm curious as well about this...It seems that there
are a lot of posts from people wanting a "CPAN-like" something, but when
someone posts a proposal, they get very few comments, and even less
support.

My experience when I posted a proposal was that almost everyone that did
comment was all gung ho about their own personal vision of the nifty
it-dowloads-and-installs-itself system, and no one wanted to do the work
of just getting all the packages together. It seems no one wants to
start small.

Will all things open source, this is going to take one person who puts
in the time to put together something truly usefull, and then they may
get some support. I hope I'll have the time someday, and if not me,
someone else. I'm convinced it is needed.

-Chris



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Christopher Barker,
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