Just use buildout...
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:24:07 +0900, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if there is any interest in the current distribute effort to > specify some low-level commonalities outside the distutils code for > interoperation. In particular, I had two things in mind: > 1 Formally specifying the egg format (and versioning it !) - or is > egg format outside distribute goal ? > 2 Formally specifying something like a build manifest which would be > used for installation. > > I think the first point is self-explanatory. Concerning the second > point, the current way of installing things in distutils is a bit too > ad-hoc to my taste, and could be fixed inside distutils to make it > easier to interoperate with other methods (be it native OS methods or > other python-related tools). Right now, distutils install things from > a list of files, but this only contains the target location for some > kind of files. What about the following kind of format instead (or in > complement for backward-compatibility): > > - split the flat list into a list of "typed" sections, where type > would be e.g. data, python files, extensions, scripts, etc... > - for each section, specify both the source and target directory. > - the format should be easy to parse/produce, and versioned. > > The rationale is that such a format would enable the following: > - it becomes easier to post-process files at install time, with > different methods for each type > - such a format could form a basis to produce "conventional" install, > eggs and other kind of installers, including convertion between them. > > Assuming this idea fits into what people involved in distribute are > doing, I would be willing to propose a more formal description - I > already have the implementation in my own project toydist, where I use > build manifest to do explicit install and eggs/wininst conversion. > > cheers, > > David > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig