[Distutils] Bundling Distribute

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 23:39:29 CET 2009


On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/5 Ram Rachum <cool-rr at cool-rr.com>:
>> Which leads me to my next
>> point: When creating a binary with Distribute, will it install Distribute
>> automatically on the user's computer?
>
> 1. No.
> 2. You should only create binary releases if your module contains
> C-code and then only for Windows.

3. If your project is for a specific target system that is not win32,
another option is
    to re-package your distribution into a platform-specific binary
distribution, like a .deb file
    or a .rpm file.

Regards
Tarek


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