Any Python distribution solutions for Mac?

Rodney Somerstein rodneys at nospam.io.com
Wed Jul 17 01:04:08 EDT 2002


In article <20020716140415308+0200 at news.t-online.de>, Dinu Gherman
<gherman at europemail.com> wrote:

> I wrote something to create "packages" (.pkg) on OS X.
> All Apple update pacakges seem to use this kind of in-
> staller. For some reason they are compressed using pax,
> which is not always available on other platforms. Also,
> my tool never handled multi-packages. And Installer.app
> seems to give wrong install size estimates by definition,
> but...
> 
> Yep, some people suggested to make a distutils adaptor 
> for it, but at the time that seemed too complicated to 
> me.
> 
> I haven't used it (buildpkg.py) for a while, but you 
> can get it here:
> 
>   http://python.net/~gherman/#buildpkg
> 

Thanks for the response, Dinu. I was beginning to doubt that any Mac
users actually read this group. I have had one other response which was
just a me-too.

I'll take a look at buildpkg when I get the opportunity.

-Rodney



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