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.