On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:49 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote:
> I think that esp. the bdist_* commands help developers a lot by > removing the need to know how to build e.g. RPMs or Windows > installers and let distutils deal with it. I think it is a big dangerous to build rpm/deb without knowing how to build them, because contrary to windows .exe, rpm/deb install things system-wide, and you could easily break something. I don't think you can build deb/rpm without knowing quite a lot about them. > (*) I've had a go at this a few months ago and then found out > that the egg format itself is not documented anywhere. As a result > you have to dig deep into setuptools to find out which files > are needed and where. That's something that needs to change > (Tarek is already working on a PEP for this, AFAIK). It is "documented" here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EggFormats But as said in the preambule, people are not supposed to rely on this. I for once would be really happy if I could build eggs without setuptools - for example to build eggs from scons, scripts, etc... cheers, David _______________________________________________ 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