[Distutils] RPMs should include Python version in filename

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> In article <20010331002410.B815@hepcat.telocity.com>, s-thapa-
> 11@alumni.uchicago.edu writes
> ...
> >  With rpm and probably other package formats like deb, you can
> >have a requires that indicates the version of python needed
> >for installation.  E.g. if you place Requires: BeOpen-Python = 2.0
> >in the spec file, the resulting rpm won't install on systems
> >without python 2.0 user intervention.  Similarly a BuildRequires
> >tag allows for specifying dependencies in the build process although
> >I don't think it is very applicable to bdist.
> >
> I thought a desirable feature of distutils was to break away from the
> specialised distributions and create an automatic build system. Why do I
> need an rpm if I can down load and build from source? Is it the manager
> people who need these labelled lumps?

Today, there are probably more Linux users out there who cannot
compile their own code, than ones which do know how this works,
either way, we'll have to make binaries available for the sake
of customer support.

BTW, most downloads go for the binary versions, either the
Windows installers or the Linux RPMs.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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