[Distutils] Packaging: bdist_deb patches / platform specific code

[David Lyon]

On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:20:17 +0900, David Cournapeau
> Before implementing things that no other system has ever done, we should
> focus on basic things that distutils cannot do today and are expected
> from a build/distribution tool.

"If you have a pure module distribution (only containing pure Python
modules and packages), the resulting installer will be version independent
and have a name like foo-1.0.win32.exe. These installers can even be
created on Unix platforms or Mac OS X."

http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html#creating-windows-installers

David