2008/9/28 Ian Bicking
<ianb@colorstudy.com>
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.
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.