[Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Akira Kitada <akitada at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Tarek,
>
> I think "apt, yum, etc" would be also used for packaging/distributing apps.
>

There is already a command that let you create a rpm package
(bdist_rpm) out of a python package,

There were also a bdist_deb project but it never made it to distutils,
also for Debian there's a policy on how to work with python packages :
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/

Last, this mailing list had a lot of threads about the fact that
there's no standard way in Python to work with resources that
could be installed in the system, using a LSB-compliant approach.

So I don't have (I think no one does at this point) any clear view of
what could be done in this area.

Tarek
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