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

[Eric Smith]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 15:35, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> That's not what I'm saying.  What I'm really saying is that I don't want to
>> have to run 5 different setup.py commands every time I do a release in order
>> to upload all the possible distribution formats that my users may want.
> 
> Well, you are gonna have to, because you also need to test that they
> work anyway. We can't distribute autogenerated distribution packages
> that nobody ever tested that they actually work.
> 

Someone should, true. But it need not be the original author, who might 
not have the ability to test (or even produce) every desirable 
distribution format.