On Oct 20, 2004, at 18:10, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Bob Ippolito wrote:
I've developed two bdist commands (bdist_pkg and bdist_mpkg) for usage on OS X. These commands apply to any setup.py that supports an "install" command, similar to bdist_wininst, so it would be nice if every setup.py didn't have to explicitly import something in order to get the commands there. I know I can make it work with a pth file that imports bdist_pkg, but that seems a bit costly to do because it will end up importing a bunch of stuff (distutils, mainly). Is there another way to do it?
Submit them for inclusion in the standard distribution ;-)
I will, for 2.5... but there's quite some time between now and then.
Please use a different name for bdist_pkg, though, since pkg is already used for Solaris binary packages (unless, of course, yours works for Solaris packages as well).
Well .pkg is used for Mac OS X binary packages too. Also, the only hit on google for bdist_pkg is a comment I made a couple months ago. Anyhow, the most useful command is bdist_mpkg, which builds metapackages, so I'll call it that and remove the bdist_pkg command if it makes you happy :) -bob