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

[Jack Jansen]

On vrijdag, nov 15, 2002, at 16:38 Europe/Amsterdam, Andrew Kuchling 
wrote:

> 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.

Is this a good idea? Wouldn't it lead naive distributors to think that 
once they've done "setup.py bdist" their work is done without realizing 
they've left 90% of the world out in the cold?
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