Anyone packaged python-ldap as part of a bigger package ?

[Roland Hedberg]

Hi!

My goal: to 'bundle' pyton-ldap as part of a service distribution.

The necessary software for this distribution is a among other a set of  
Python packages like python-ldap, Twisted and rdflib and a a couple of  
packages I've developed in python myself, but to get the full service  
functionality I will have to include a graph database written in Java  
and possibly also an Apache server.

easy_install seems to me to be limited to handle distributions of  
python packages and to handle their dependences on other python  
packages, but this is far from what I need.

So, I'm looking at buildout from Zope.

More specifically I'm contemplating writing a buildout recipe for  
installing python-ldap.
Running such a recipe would not only result in fetching python-ldap by  
ftp or http from a site but could also include doing configuration  
before installation as well as after.

Anyone done anything like this ?

One problem I've already found is that there doesn't seem to exist a  
simple stable FTP/HTTP URL that points to the latest distribution.

--Roland