[Distutils] Re: [Python-Dev] Killing off bdist_dumb

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 10:11 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Funny; I would have expected that bdist is a no-op.

Presumably Greg's original goal was that running bdist would run
the right builder for your platform: bdist_rpm on Red Hat, 
bdist_wininst on Windows, etc.  It would be nice to make that work 
correctly.  (But how can you tell whether a Linux distribution uses RPM 
or DEB natively?)

--amk