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

[Jorge Vargas]

On 11/10/06, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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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?
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> > Stick with your Makefile and system packaging tools.  Distutils is really
> > only a win for Python *libraries*, not applications.
umm I have never though of it that way but your right. I just hope my
Makefile doesn't grows enough so it needs autotools...
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> zc.buildout has some facilities for automating build of components using
> "CMMI" (configure + make + make install) in conjunction with setuptools.
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I though zc goal was to build zope apps, on the other hand how much of
a footprint do you actually need for ac.buildout package? do you need
to distribute the whole package bungle with the install?

>   http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Buildout/
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>   http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/trunk/
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>   http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout/1.0.0b12
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> Tres.
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