Python 2.4 killing commercial Windows Python development ?

[Stefan Behnel]

Roger Binns schrieb:
> As far as I can tell, they failed at two hurdles.  One is that there
> is a new BitPim release every two weeks and they can't really keep up
> with that.  (eg it takes around two weeks for packages with a lot of
> attention on Gentoo to become stable and often is a lot longer)

This is why many open source projects include (possibly outdated) .spec 
files directly in their tree. Makes it easy to just adapt them and run 
rpmbuild. Similar for Debian package specs.

With Python sources it is even easier (most of the time) since you can run
python setup.py bdist_rpm
which spits out a readily baken RPM, ready to be nailed into the system. 
Sadly, this doesn't exist for Debian and it doesn't work for all Python 
packages (Twisted, that is).

Stefan