[Distutils] should I use distutils for a gnome-applet?

[Tres Seaver]

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Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 01:53 AM 11/10/2006 +0000, Jorge Vargas wrote:
>> so my question is will I really win from hoping over to distutils or
>> should I just stick with my Makefile?
> 
> Stick with your Makefile and system packaging tools.  Distutils is really 
> only a win for Python *libraries*, not applications.

zc.buildout has some facilities for automating build of components using
"CMMI" (configure + make + make install) in conjunction with setuptools.

  http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Buildout/

  http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/trunk/

  http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout/1.0.0b12



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