Binary generation with distutils? (Freeze, py2exe, etc.)

[Gerhard Häring]

Fernando Pérez wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> 
>> 
>> - Magnus (who also is a bit baffled as to why distutils doesn't
>> include an "uninstall" command, such as the one implemented by
>> Thomas Heller.)
> 
> Amen. It's incredibly annoying to have to tell users that a simple python 
> setup.py install does the trick as far as splattering files all over their 
> system, but that there's no reasonable way of undoing the process easily.

You know about "python setup.py bdist_rpm" for RPM-based Linuxen and
"python setup.py bdist_wininst" for Windows, right?

A bdist_deb or bdist_bsd_pkg or whatever simply isn't publicly
available, yet. But I'm pretty sure a patch implementing a new
packaging method would make it into Python.

Gerhard
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reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))