[Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

[Olemis Lang]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>
>> One of the motivations for deprecating this (and for using this
>> specific example) was that Matthias Klose, the Python packager for
>> Debian, said he never uses bdist_rpm.
>
> Given that Debian doesn't use RPMs,

Only if using alien ... but ...

> isn't that expected?
>

... yes I assume that the best way for building debs is not building
an RPM first so ...

> I'm actually in favor of removing the bdist_* from the standard library, and
> allowing 3rd-party tools to implement whatever they need for the distros.
>  But I don't think what you're presenting there supports it.
>

I agree ...


BTW ... bdist_rpm is also there in Windows, and viceversa,
bdist_wininst is also the in FC | RH ... and noione needs that, except
devs willing to build RPMs in order to provide their own installers
... but most of the use cases for distutils bdist_* cmds come from
similar situations ... IMHO ... and the OS of users of a pkg doesnt
match the OS of the devs. The later may even have different OSs
installed ... ;)

I mean, who is gonna use bdist_* if not devs or distro maintainers or
somebody trying to build an installable artifact (... RPM, DEB, MSI,
...) for users having their own OS-flavors ?

--
Regards,

Olemis.

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