At 11:30 AM 7/26/2007 -0400, Noah Gift wrote:

Have you envisioned a workflow that interacts with RPM's or other package management systems? I know my company uses RPM's for example to package up our Python Packages, and many shops use RPM and/or debian packaging systems.

Running bdist_rpm on a setuptools-based package produces a usable RPM, but you have to manually translate any dependencies and supply them as bdist_rpm options, either on the command line or in the project's setup.cfg.