[Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg replacement

[Matthias Baas]

Hi,

a while back there has been a discussion about Python 3 support in
bdist_mpkg. Basically, I was in the same situation as the original
poster and was looking for a way to produce binary packages for Python 3.
As it seemed that bdist_mpkg is not maintained anymore and it's using an
obsolete package format anyway, I started getting my hands dirty and
looked into writing a replacement for it. In the end, it wasn't actually
that difficult and it works fine for my project now.

So far, I didn't publish it anywhere but if there's enough demand, I'd
be happy to create a project space somewhere and make it available.
It's implemented as a regular distutils command (called bdist_osxinst,
similar to the existing bdist_wininst), so usage should be as you
probably would expect. It works with Python 2 and 3 and I tried to make
it fairly generic and not tailor it to my own project.

So are there still some people around that would like to give this a try
or is the general opinion that things like easy_install or pip should be
the preferred method anyway?

Cheers,

- Matthias -