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

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:51 AM, 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.

That's what users, continuous integration, and and bug reports are for!

Barry

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