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

[Eric Smith]

Akira Kitada wrote:
> In my opinion, bdist_rpm and the like are "nice hacks" at best
> and nothing more.
> Peoplo who love rigorous distribution or control freaks would probably
> prefer to
> bother packaging themselves and that will leads them to use apt, yum...

I am both a control freak and love rigorous distribution. I use 
bdist_rpm all the time. There's no reason it can't be as good as 
creating a .spec file by hand, as long as setup.py has all of the 
required metadata. And I think that's the point here, to identify all of 
the metadata.

> 
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> --
>> Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org
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>> Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/
>>
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