[Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

[Zvezdan Petkovic]

On Mar 25, 2009, at 11:02 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> That is, the full workflow that should really be happening is  
> something like the following:
>
>                     Developer(s)
>                          |
>                          V
>         (distutils/setuptools/pip/zc.buildout/etc)
>                          |
>                          V

Here's a small FYI for this point in the diagram.
Perhaps some people are not aware of zc.sourcerelease.

	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.sourcerelease/

It allows you to take a zc.buildout based project and pack it into a  
tarball with all the eggs the project depends on packed with it.

	buildout-source-release projectdir_or_repo_path buildout.cfg

You can drop the resulting tarball into SOURCES directory and a  
corresponding .spec file into SPECS directory and build an RPM package.
The RPM is then used to install the application.

Thus, zc.buildout is used for development (package management) and  
zc.sourcerelease + rpmbuild for distribution.

I know this does not solve problems that many mentioned in this  
thread, but it could solve a distribution problem for people who use  
zc.buildout  but were not aware of zc.sourcerelease.  As I said above,  
this was just an info for anyone interested in this particular workflow.

>
>             <Common Python packaging spec>
>                          |
>                          V
>              Packager(s)/Distributor(s)
>                          |
>                          V
>  (Windows MSI/Mac OS X bundle/Linux RPM/Linux DEB/etc)
>                          |
>                          V
>                 End User Installation