[Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Jan 29 14:57:59 CET 2009


Le mercredi 28 janvier 2009 à 08:07 -0500, Barry Warsaw a écrit :
> I'd like to make a radical suggestion: upstream authors should never  
> have to worry about building distribution blobs.

This is just silly. You don’t have to worry about the distribution’s
internals, and what is specific to each package format, but the very
idea of developing without any kind of knowledge about how the software
will integrate on a system is a guaranteed recipe for a development
disaster.

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