Stephen Langer wrote: > On Dec 7, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: > >> Kevin Dangoor wrote: >>> -1 >>> >>> In the months that I've been subscribed to this list, I haven't >>> really >>> seen any *other* discussion that seems geared towards improving >>> distribution of Python modules and add-ons. >> Ditto. Setuptools is the most active distutils-related development >> right now, no surprise there's lots of messages on it. The volume >> is a >> *good* thing ;) > > I guess the concern is that the dominance of setuptools message is > scaring away people with old-fashioned distutils questions. There > haven't been many of those lately, and some of them seem to have > received no response. I don't think that splitting the list in two > is a solution, though. There's not enough traffic to warrant that > (except for a brief spurt a week or so ago...)
Point taken. I would like to get the development and integration of important distribution formats going again. For me, bdist_deb, bdist_msi, bdist_nsis, bdist_inno as well as some other formats used by HP-UX and Solaris are more important than inventing yet another package manager. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 13 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
