[Distutils] Packaging: bdist_deb patches / platform specific code

[David Lyon]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 23:37:42 -0300, Leonardo Santagada <santagada at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> That is...
>>
>> runs on any platform...
>>
>> builds for any platform....
> 
> 
> Because this is almost impossible... for example building a win_inst  
> package on linux (let alone other unixes, etc) is very very hard  
> (specially if it involves extensions), the same for rpm, deb and mpkg.

quoting...

http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html#cross-compiling-on-windows

"A built distribution is how you make life as easy as possible for
installers of your module distribution: for users of RPM-based Linux
systems, it’s a binary RPM; for Windows users, it’s an executable
installer; for Debian-based Linux users, it’s a Debian package; and so
forth. Obviously, no one person will be able to create built distributions
for every platform under the sun, so the Distutils are designed to enable
module developers to concentrate on their specialty—writing code and
creating source distributions"