On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:55:29AM -0500, Eric Smith wrote:
Lennart Regebro wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 15:35, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
That's not what I'm saying. What I'm really saying is that I don't want to have to run 5 different setup.py commands every time I do a release in order to upload all the possible distribution formats that my users may want.
Well, you are gonna have to, because you also need to test that they work anyway. We can't distribute autogenerated distribution packages that nobody ever tested that they actually work.
Someone should, true. But it need not be the original author, who might not have the ability to test (or even produce) every desirable distribution format.
In my ideal world python package developers would only ever have to worry about uploading an sdist. It's up to whoever wants to consume these to re-pack them in the appropriate format if that's what they want. If I am correct the only reason people started to go away from this is because Windows users don't tend to have compilers installed. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org