[Distutils] Packaging: bdist_deb patches / platform specific code

[David Lyon]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:28:52 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>
wrote:
> During the summit at Pycon, we have said that it would be a better
> strategy not to include
> within Distutils os-specific tools for various reasons (and also to
> remove existing ones) :
> 
> - it's better for them to have their own release cycles
> - it's hard for me, as distutils maintainer, to maintain and make
> evolve os-specific tools. People that are specialists on those OS
>   will do a better job.

Let's think about this.... and what it means.....

It seems that this direction comes down to "we don't want to maintain it"
rather than anything else.

The whole point of distutils is to be able to make up a package in
such a way that it can be distributed to every platform.... right?

So removing the code that is specific to specific platforms is just
collapsing the whole project.

Rather than "removing" platform specific code... and rendering
distutils crippled... why not work on developing the code so that
it operates more like a "cross-compiler"...

That is...

runs on any platform...

builds for any platform....

David