Re: [Python-Dev] bdist_linux (was: setuptools has divided the Python community)

2009-03-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I think that each OS community should maintain its own tool, that complies to the OS standard (wich has its own evolution cycle) Of course this will be possible as long as Distutils let the system packager find/change the metadata in an easy way. In the specific case of RPMs, I still think

Re: [Python-Dev] bdist_linux (was: setuptools has divided the Python community)

2009-03-29 Thread David Cournapeau
2009/3/29 Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de: I think that each OS community should maintain its own tool, that complies to the OS standard (wich has its own evolution cycle) Of course this will be possible as long as Distutils let the system packager find/change the metadata in an easy way.

Re: [Python-Dev] bdist_linux

2009-03-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Maybe I don't understand what is meant by metadata, but I don't understand why we can't provide the same metadata as autotools Likewise, *this* I do not understand. In what way does autotools *provide* metadata? I can understand that it *uses* certain metadata, but it doesn't *provide*

Re: [Python-Dev] bdist_linux

2009-03-29 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: Maybe I don't understand what is meant by metadata, but I don't understand why we can't provide the same metadata as autotools Likewise, *this* I do not understand. In what way does autotools *provide* metadata? I