On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:55:29AM -0500, Eric Smith wrote: > Lennart Regebro wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 15:35, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: >>> That's not what I'm saying. What I'm really saying is that I don't want to >>> have to run 5 different setup.py commands every time I do a release in order >>> to upload all the possible distribution formats that my users may want. >> >> Well, you are gonna have to, because you also need to test that they >> work anyway. We can't distribute autogenerated distribution packages >> that nobody ever tested that they actually work. >> > > Someone should, true. But it need not be the original author, who might > not have the ability to test (or even produce) every desirable > distribution format.
In my ideal world python package developers would only ever have to worry about uploading an sdist. It's up to whoever wants to consume these to re-pack them in the appropriate format if that's what they want. If I am correct the only reason people started to go away from this is because Windows users don't tend to have compilers installed. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
