[Distutils] bdist_nsis, bdist_deb, bdist_msi, bdist_inno, bdist_pkgtool, bdist_sdux, bdist_mpkg, etc.

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 13-dec-2005, at 22:42, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> On Dec 13, 2005, at 11:13 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>>>>> I'd like to focus attention on these distribution formats
>>>>>> that distutils is missing:
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to another important candidate to the list:
>>>>>
>>>>> bdist_mpkg:
>>>>>    Mac OS X installer format
>>>>>    Part of py2app by Bob Ippolito
>>>>>    http://undefined.org/python/py2app.html#bdist-mpkg- 
>>>>> documentation
>>>>
>>>> bdist_mpkg is actually available on its own now, but I'm not  
>>>> sure adding
>>>> it to distutils is a great idea.  The current version is already  
>>>> moved
>>>> over to setuptools, and I'm pretty close to adding egg support  
>>>> to it.  I
>>>> may even require that the Python bits of the installation  
>>>> package are
>>>> eggs, as that would allow me to remove a bunch of code.  Eggs  
>>>> mostly
>>>> obsolete what bdist_mpkg is for, but it's also used to install  
>>>> things
>>>> like documentation and example code, so I'm not going to drop it
>>>> altogether.
>>>
>>> Looks like now is a good time to add it to distutils then :-)
>>
>> No.  Definitely not.
>> ...
>> In other words, I don't consent to adding bdist_mpkg to Python  
>> until it
>> supports eggs.
>
> Ok, then I'll remove the above candidate from the list.
>
> Anyone else interested in writing a bdist_mpkg command
> that doesn't require setuptools ?
>
> Given the good documentation for the format, this shouldn't
> be hard:
>
> http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/PackageMaker_Howto.html

Should the volunteer also write the package management tools? One  
reason why
I'm interested in setuptools is that OSX's 'Installer.app' is just  
that, a tool
to install .pkg/.mpkg archives. You cannot uninstall packages and  
upgradeing
seems to leave files around unless you manually remove them in a pre/ 
post script.

OSX is great, but its installer application sucks. Setuptools/ 
easy_install solves
several problems for me:
1) uninstall
2) dependency management
3) automaticly downloading required software

And BTW the most common way to install software on OSX is by dragging  
an application
icon from a CD or disk image to the folder containing  
applications ;-) ;-)

Ronald

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