[Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib)

[Nick Coghlan]

Anthony Baxter wrote:
> On Sunday 23 April 2006 11:43, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> Maybe we need something that's the equivalent of alien (rpm -> dpkg
>> converter), so that given an egg, one can easily get a native
>> installer for that egg.
> 
> An 'eggconvert' that used the existing bdist_foo machinery to build 
> system specific packages would probably be an ok summer of code 
> project, no?

It sounds like an excellent one if you can find the right mentor. . .

Cheers,
Nick.

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