Akira Kitada wrote:
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...
I am both a control freak and love rigorous distribution. I use
bdist_rpm all the time. There's no reason it can't be as good as
creating a .spec file by hand, as long as setup.py has all of the
required metadata. And I think that's the point here, to identify all of
the metadata.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Akira Kitada <[email protected]> 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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