[Python-Dev] splitting out bdist_*

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 28, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> I really don't see how that kind of thing can be easily supported by a
> Python module maintainer, unless they're also the downstream packager.

They simply can't.  As a package developer, I'd be sort of okay with  
integrating patches that help downstreams, but I wouldn't be happy  
about it.  I can't test it, and there might be conflicts between the  
demands of various downstreams.  Much more appealing is for me to  
describe what's in my package with rich enough metadata that  
downstreams don't need anything else to overlay their build rules  
according to their own needs.

Barry

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