On 23 Apr, 10:59, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek- central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > > The Linux solution is to leave distro packaging to the distro maintainers. > Release the source, and they will make up the necessary packages for their > specific one-click installers. You don't have to worry about it.
And the crucial message, that may not have sunk in yet amongst the many people messing around with "enhancing" distutils, is that in order for the distro maintainers to have something decent to work with, distutils and related tools should produce stuff which isn't too clever for its own good: "dist" as in "distribute", not as "install, but not uninstall, and then try and own everything from the developer's toolchain to the user's installation environment". Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
