[Distutils] Low Level API for translating distutils/setuptools metatdata to Debian metadata

[David Lyon]

Hi Chris,

I started prototyping of this a month or so ago but haven't had a chance
to do much more on it too now. Maybe in the next I'll put more effort into
this multi-platform package builder and register it as a project somewhere.


If you want to send me your scripts offline, I'd be interested seeing
them. 

Unfortunately, I've been busy writing documentation for the Package Manager

and trying  to figure out how to use distutils myself. It's a steep 
learning curve.

I get the point about having some web based app (pypi? haha) where
you type in a package name, click the platforms.. and out come all
the different packages for all the different python versions and
operating systems.

That's all I ever asked for.... :-) but I only know backend stuff
and gui programming. I kindof know how to seperate the two so doing
a web based one is totally impossible.

Hopefully I'll find enough hacking time in the next few months..


David

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:32:49 -0700 (PDT), Chris Dew <cmsdew at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> On May 31, 12:27 am, David Lyon <david.l... at preisshare.net> wrote:
>>  1) create a three page "wizard" style app in wxpython
> 
> After spending a three hours trying to figure out how to correctly
> build a debian package from Python sources, I agree it needs to be a
> lot easier.
> 
> But scripts allow for continuous integration, which is a very good
> thing, as servers build packages and run tests nearly for free.
> 
> GUIs require an expensive person to click buttons, which is also not
> an interesting task for the person.
> 
> If anyone's tempted to go down this route and create a GUI system for
> Python distro-packaging, please build in a scriptable/headless option.