On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:34:43 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: > I've changed the sdist command some time ago, so it uses the sdtilb > tarfile module, instead of the "tar" command, > meaning that we could switch to the tar format under windows by > default as well now, not requiring the "tar" program anymore > > But some people may prefer the zip format.
Sounds like useful work Tarek, tarfiles aren't a problem at all on windows if you have the software to read them.... I'm personally a fan of the "black-box" approach... Where it just works.... I say this just that my personal experience with python so far is that .tar.gz packages rarely seem to install properly under windows. Or if they do... easyinstall reports an error on them.... (try - easyinstall buildbot... or pydbf to see what i mean) I guess that is a side issue... My point is whatever you do to try to help developers build for multiple platforms from their own platform is worthwhile. When I get a chance I'll actually try to start using distutils to bundle my own application. Which is as you might know a package manager for python that is supposed to be delivered to all platforms on which python runs. After that, I'm having thoughts of doing a gui interface for distutils... to make the whole thing easier from a developers point of view... but I can only make observations on distutils from a bit of a distance... but it looks better the more I learn about it... David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
