[Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

[Akira Kitada]

In my opinion, bdist_rpm and the like are "nice hacks" at best
and nothing more.
Peoplo who love rigorous distribution or control freaks would probably
prefer to
bother packaging themselves and that will leads them to use apt, yum...

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Akira Kitada <akitada at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Tarek,
>>
>> I think "apt, yum, etc" would be also used for packaging/distributing apps.
>>
>
> There is already a command that let you create a rpm package
> (bdist_rpm) out of a python package,
>
> There were also a bdist_deb project but it never made it to distutils,
> also for Debian there's a policy on how to work with python packages :
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/
>
> Last, this mailing list had a lot of threads about the fact that
> there's no standard way in Python to work with resources that
> could be installed in the system, using a LSB-compliant approach.
>
> So I don't have (I think no one does at this point) any clear view of
> what could be done in this area.
>
> Tarek
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