On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Fred Drake <fdr...@acm.org> wrote: > On Mar 27, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> 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. > > Given that Debian doesn't use RPMs,
Only if using alien ... but ... > isn't that expected? > ... yes I assume that the best way for building debs is not building an RPM first so ... > I'm actually in favor of removing the bdist_* from the standard library, and > allowing 3rd-party tools to implement whatever they need for the distros. > But I don't think what you're presenting there supports it. > I agree ... BTW ... bdist_rpm is also there in Windows, and viceversa, bdist_wininst is also the in FC | RH ... and noione needs that, except devs willing to build RPMs in order to provide their own installers ... but most of the use cases for distutils bdist_* cmds come from similar situations ... IMHO ... and the OS of users of a pkg doesnt match the OS of the devs. The later may even have different OSs installed ... ;) I mean, who is gonna use bdist_* if not devs or distro maintainers or somebody trying to build an installable artifact (... RPM, DEB, MSI, ...) for users having their own OS-flavors ? -- Regards, Olemis. Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ Blog EN: http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ Featured article: Comandos : Pipe Viewer ... ¿Qué está pasando por esta tubería? _______________________________________________ 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
