[Distutils] Multi-distribution distributions

[Paul Prescod]

"Mark W. Alexander" wrote:
> 
> ... So to
> implement sub-package support, each individual bdist_* module
> has to be visited.

Where you say "sub-package" I think you mean what I call "distribution
unit" or "component".

> The relevance here is that the bdist_generic class would
> have built-in sub-package support which would then be
> inherited to all (capable) package managers. 

I agree that some stuff could be abstracted into a base class but I
still think that every bdist has to be touched to implement embedded
distribution units. For instance Windows EXE would probably have to
uncompress the embedded executables to a temporary directory,
recursively execute them and then delete them. RPM would have to do
something similar in a Unix-y way.

 Paul Prescod