2008/9/28 Ian Bicking
Greg Ewing wrote:
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
the domain knowledge embedded in the distutils are of fairly limited
scope and kind:
* Extension building, compile/link options and defines * Wildly-differing installation path schemes across platforms * Platform distribution formats like bdist_rpm, bdist_wininst, and bdist_msi
Seems to me that if there were a well-defined API for plugging in platform-dependent modules, it shouldn't be too hard to find people willing to contribute modules for the platforms they're familiar with.
For the most part I don't think you'd even need plugins, these platform-dependent tools could just be independent, maybe working more like:
make_wininst SomePackage/
They'd read the metadata about the package, and just do their work however they wanted. Plugins get complicated compared to stand-alone tools.
+1 this is exactly the same thing for uploading or registering a package at PyPI. We don't need to use command plugins for that as long as the medata can be read to do the job.
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