[Distutils] Extending distutils with 3rd party build commands?
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Thu Oct 21 01:03:54 CEST 2004
Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 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.
We once had a bdist_pkgtool in CVS but had to remove it again
due to copyright issues. Dito for bdist_sdux:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/python/python/dist/src/Lib/distutils/command/Attic/
Looks like bdist_pkg is OK after all :-) It's a long time
ago I had reviewed those packages.
> 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 :)
Perhaps bdist_macpkg would be more appropriate if the format
is not compatible with the pkgtool output ?!
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