2009/7/25 David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net>: >> It would, in fact, be best to work with the team performing ongoing >> active standardisation of distutils functionality. > > I am already doing that. > > But there is a bias against windows development and a bias > against native applications. That's fine because I know they > are using python on different platforms.
??? I see no bias as you describe in the distutils enhancement work. Everything so far has been carefully platform-neutral (ie, *not* biased against Windows, but equally not biased against other operating systems). Native applications are by definition not platform neutral. How does your proposal help Linux users? Mac OS? Solaris? I think you are seeing bias against Windows where non exists. What *does* exist is - A concern that tools work for everyone, regardless of OS - A limited number of people willing to explain Windows issues so that they get considered > I'm working on a proposal to make setup.py object oriented > and "modern". > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Proposals And that looks interesting, and potentially useful (although perhaps more radical than will end up being possible). > So I'm doing as much as I can - really. If your concern is to make things easier for Windows users, then your application is worthwhile, but it should probably remain an external project. If it gets overwhelming support, maybe providing a standardised version with a simplified UI in the core would be an option. How many users do you have currently? Paul. PS Does your application work with the large existing base of bdist_msi and bdist_wininst installers? Unless it will manage pywin32, cx_Oracle, PIL, wxPython, pyQT, pygame, numpy etc (all of which are available in binary form but not as eggs as far as I know, and have too complex a set of dependencies for me to build locally) it's useless to me. _______________________________________________ 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
