In private email, Phillip Eby suggested to add these things to the 2.5. standard library:
bdist_deb, bdist_msi, and friends He explained them as follows: """ bdist_deb makes .deb files (packages for Debian-based Linux distros, like Ubuntu). bdist_msi makes .msi installers for Windows (it's by Martin v. Loewis). Marc Lemburg proposed on the distutils-sig that these and various other implemented bdist_* formats (other than bdist_egg) be included in the next Python release, and there was no opposition there that I recall. """ I guess bdist_egg should also be added if we support setuptools (not setuplib as I mistakenly called it previously)? (I'm still a bit unclear on the various concepts here, not having made a distribution of anything in a very long time...) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
