[Distutils] Re: CPAN functionality for python

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Tue Feb 27 03:41:16 EST 2001


On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:35:56AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote:
>I suppose one could provide SRPMs only - let everyone else do a
>conversion - but that is favoring a specific packaging system and
>could easily be misconstrued... which is why I suggested a neutral
>format.

There is no such thing as a neutral format.  If it uses .tar.gz files,
then Slackware users will be winging that we swiped theirs.  ;-)

Sean
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