Current install methodolgy eggs?

[Paul Watson]

On 2010-09-12 16:40, Ben Finney wrote:
> This is a dream shared by many, but Distutils has much improvement to be
> done yet. Recently — the past couple of years — a lot of progress has
> been made on this front, and Python 3.x is getting many of the benefits;
> look up the “Distutils2” efforts for more.

Many thanks for your comments, Ben.  Looks like I should learn distutils 
well.

I see the distutils2 work going on.  I hope it is designed to work with 
Python 2.x.  That would help it get some traction in existing packages.

Most platforms have an installation methodology.  Oracle Solaris (yea, 
hard for me to get use to as well) has pkgadd.  Microsoft has the .msi 
installer.  Do you think it would be possible to create a toolset that 
would produce installation kits in each of these forms?  That would make 
the install conform with the standard platform installer.  Is this 
worthwhile thinking about?