[Distutils] Distributing Python-programs to Ubuntu users

[Olof Bjarnason]

2009/9/26 Andrew Straw <strawman at astraw.com>:
> Olof Bjarnason wrote:
>> 2009/9/26 Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko at zooko.com>:
>>
>>> On Friday,2009-09-25, at 2:23 , Olof Bjarnason wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've skimmed a couple of tutorials on how to generate .deb-files, but,
>>>> wow, it's a whole new skill set to do that!
>>>>
>>> Have you tried stdeb?
>>>
>>> http://github.com/astraw/stdeb
>>>
>>> Check out the section entitled "Quickstart 1: Just tell me the fastest way
>>> to make a .deb".
>>>
>>
>> This looks interesting!
>>
>> This seems to be the path to follow:
>>
>> 1. Learn setup.py+distutils
>> 2. Fix my project to follow that convention
>> 3. Upload project to pypi
>>
> Strictly speaking, that step 3 is not necessary.
>> 4. Use stdeb to generate .deb

OK thanks. I gather stdeb does handle .deb-package dependencies, like
PyGame, right?

>
>
> -Andrew
>



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