I've added your comments to a wiki page
(http://wiki.python.org/moin/PackagingBOF) I was working on to summarize
some of what went on during these BoF meeting, at least from the
Enthought point-of-view. Unfortunately, I wasn't at the first night's
event and don't yet have Travis Oliphant's
I was in a Packaging BoF yesterday and, although not very relevant to the
packager bootstrap thread, Guido has asked me to post some of the concerns.
The BoF drew about 15 people, many of whom were packagers for Red Hat, Ubuntu
and such. Everyone had strong expressions of frustration with the
