[Distutils] [Fwd: Re: Annoucing distribute project]

[Tarek Ziade]

2008/9/28 Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com>

> Greg Ewing wrote:
>
>> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>
>>  the domain knowledge embedded in the distutils are of fairly limited
>>> scope and kind:
>>>
>>> * Extension building, compile/link options and defines
>>> * Wildly-differing installation path schemes across platforms
>>> * Platform distribution formats like bdist_rpm, bdist_wininst, and
>>> bdist_msi
>>>
>>
>> Seems to me that if there were a well-defined API for
>> plugging in platform-dependent modules, it shouldn't be
>> too hard to find people willing to contribute modules
>> for the platforms they're familiar with.
>>
>
> For the most part I don't think you'd even need plugins, these
> platform-dependent tools could just be independent, maybe working more like:
>
>  make_wininst SomePackage/
>
> They'd read the metadata about the package, and just do their work however
> they wanted.  Plugins get complicated compared to stand-alone tools.



+1

this is exactly the same thing for uploading or registering a package at
PyPI. We don't need to use command plugins for that as long as
the medata can be read to do the job.




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