[Python-Dev] Executing zipfiles and directories (was Re: PyCon Keynote)

[Glenn Linderman]

On approximately 1/27/2010 1:08 AM, came the following characters from 
the keyboard of Glenn Linderman:
> Without reference to distutils, it seems the pieces are:
>
> 1) a way to decide what to include in the package
> 2) code that knows where to put what is included, on one or more 
> platforms
> 3) the process to create the ZIP file that includes 1 & 2, and call it 
> an appropriate name.py
>
> 3 looks easy, once 1 & 2 are figured out.  distutils might provide the 
> foundation for 1.  2 sounds like something a distutils application 
> might create.  I'm not sure that distutils is in the business of 
> building installer programs, my understanding is that it is in the 
> business of providing a standard way of recording and interpreting 
> bills of materials and maybe dependencies, but that is based only on 
> reading discussions here, not reading documentation.  I haven't had a 
> chance to read all the module documentation since coming to python.

3 was rather easy, and has come in handy for me, as it turned out: see 
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577042/

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