On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> On 2009-03-27 04:19, Guido van Rossum wrote: >>> >>> - keep distutils, but start deprecating certain higher-level >>> functionality in it (e.g. bdist_rpm) >>> - don't try to provide higher-level functionality in the stdlib, but >>> instead let third party tools built on top of these core APIs compete >> >> Should this be read as: >> >> - remove bdist_rpm from the stdlib and let it live on PyPI >> >> ? > > As one of the people who proposed this, I think it means: move bdist_rpm, > bdist_msi, etc. out of distutils, but provide some of them with the standard > Python installation. I'm certain that as part of the refactoring and > simplification of distutils we'll gradually move the existing bdist_* > commands into separate, stand-alone "things" (scripts, callable modules, or > something). We'll need to do this if only for testing, so we may as well > make them work.
One of the motivations for deprecating this (and for using this specific example) was that Matthias Klose, the Python packager for Debian, said he never uses bdist_rpm. -- --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
