RELEASED Python 2.3.4, release candidate 1

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Sat May 15 06:33:35 EDT 2004


Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Submit the necessary magic and I'm sure it would get incorporated into the
> distribution.  I think the basic pieces are there.  Distutils can build RPMs
> I believe.  I know Sean Reifschneider builds RPMs with some small lag time
> after a release.  Perhaps what he does (a spec file?) can be incorporated
> into the distribution and an extra target added to the Makefile to simplify
> building it.

It's not _quite_ that simple, as the RPMs have to be signed.
Sean has most of the magic worked out, and hopefully one day
this can be all included in the appropriate PEPs (101 and 102).

Anthony
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