[Distutils] Distutils functionality questions/clarifications...

[Leonardo Santagada]

On Jun 2, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Nathan Yergler wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:32 AM, David Lyon  
> <david.lyon at preisshare.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:50:35 +0200, Tarek Ziadé  
>> <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>  1) Debian+ubuntu .deb support? working? not-working? Status?
>>>
>>> The stdeb project provides a layer on the top of distutils for  
>>> example
>>> to achieve this.
>>
>> Oh ok - well the documentation should really lead people there.. imho
>>
>>>>  2) Mac Support? Working? same - how well? documentation is vague
>>>
>>> What kind of mac support you are reffering to ? If you build
>>> something, it will work fine under mac
>>
>> Well...
>>
>> update the documentation.. the table near the top needs to
>> reflect that.
>
> I think Tarek is just pointing out that you can build a dist and it'll
> work on Mac OS X; AFAIK there's no explicit target for it (ala wininst
> or RPM).

There is makepkg or something, it is just a third party module like  
stdeb no?

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Leonardo Santagada
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