[Python-Dev] Re: Re: hook for standalone executable

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Fri Aug 15 09:31:07 EDT 2003


On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:11:21 +1000, Mark Hammond 
<mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> But isn't at least part of the Linux community hoping that this will 
> change,
> and that Linux will become viable for such users?

Any Linux distribution aimed at end users will use some packaging format 
and provide dependency checking.  We'd need better support for building 
packages using Distutils; RPM support is there, but dpkg isn't.

--amk




More information about the Python-Dev mailing list