Re: buildpkg.py to evaluate (Was: Python package maker for OS X Installer.app)
Say, would it be possible to write a distutils interface for Dinu's package manager driver ? If so, I wish someone from the Mac crowd would seriously look into this. If you need help, just ask... IMHO, distutils really needs more support for native package managers, e.g. for FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc. We currently have RedHat RPM and Windows -- which is great for quite a large audience, but leaves out a large number of Python supported platforms. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Consulting & Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
I submitted Solaris and HP-UX packaging commands in April, along with a new base class that allows other packaging commands to be written with consistent support for all PEP241 metadata. They work for me (TM). We'll never know if they work for others if they aren't integrated. Frankly, I'm a little annoyed that they've sat this long, otherwise I might have pursued a Debian command as well. mwa On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Say, would it be possible to write a distutils interface for Dinu's package manager driver ? If so, I wish someone from the Mac crowd would seriously look into this. If you need help, just ask...
IMHO, distutils really needs more support for native package managers, e.g. for FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc. We currently have RedHat RPM and Windows -- which is great for quite a large audience, but leaves out a large number of Python supported platforms.
Thanks,
-- Mark W. Alexander slash@dotnetslash.net
"Mark W. Alexander" wrote:
I submitted Solaris and HP-UX packaging commands in April, along with a new base class that allows other packaging commands to be written with consistent support for all PEP241 metadata.
They work for me (TM). We'll never know if they work for others if they aren't integrated. Frankly, I'm a little annoyed that they've sat this long, otherwise I might have pursued a Debian command as well.
Hmm, I think we have to do something about the development process for distutils. AFAIK, Andrew is the current distutils champion -- perhaps we ought to be a little more flexible w/r to checkins and allow more people to review the distutils patches ?! Mark, we won't get your patches into Python 2.2 because of the feature freeze, so there's currently no chance to check in your patches, but after 2.2 is out we could look at doing those checkins right away and perhaps even create a separate distribution of distutils before Python 2.3 goes out the door. BTW, if patches don't get reviewed, feel free to forward a short message to this list.
mwa
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Say, would it be possible to write a distutils interface for Dinu's package manager driver ? If so, I wish someone from the Mac crowd would seriously look into this. If you need help, just ask...
IMHO, distutils really needs more support for native package managers, e.g. for FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc. We currently have RedHat RPM and Windows -- which is great for quite a large audience, but leaves out a large number of Python supported platforms.
Thanks,
-- Mark W. Alexander slash@dotnetslash.net
-- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Consulting & Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 08:20:24PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Hmm, I think we have to do something about the development process for distutils. AFAIK, Andrew is the current distutils champion -- perhaps we ought to be a little more flexible w/r to checkins and allow more people to review the distutils patches ?!
Agreed. If anyone else wants to review and/or approve Distutils patches or bugs, feel free to assign them to yourself, as I'll never get around to looking at them. --amk
Andrew Kuchling wrote:
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 08:20:24PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Hmm, I think we have to do something about the development process for distutils. AFAIK, Andrew is the current distutils champion -- perhaps we ought to be a little more flexible w/r to checkins and allow more people to review the distutils patches ?!
Agreed. If anyone else wants to review and/or approve Distutils patches or bugs, feel free to assign them to yourself, as I'll never get around to looking at them.
Thanks, Andrew. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Consulting & Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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