[Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg question: python 3 support?

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

Oops hit send by accident .


On Dec 17, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
<chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2012, at 1:34 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
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>>>
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>> You could port bdist_mpkg yourself, doing that should be too hard. That said, bdist_mpkg creates an old package format that doesn't support some of the more recent features of Installer.app (such as signed packages).
>>
>> Another alternative is to use the packaging tools provided with Xcode, you will have to do more manually but will end up with a "modern" package format.
>
> Do you think it would be hard to update bdist_mpkg to support the new
> format? It is nice to have a simple, pure python, way to build a.

Binary installer.

>
>> binary eggs and those don't require additional tools.

Binary eggs do require setup tools or distribute, though that's not
too heavy a lift.

But setup tools used to get all confused by Universal binaries--has
that been fixed? If not, it still may be easier to fix that than do a
bdist_mpkg update.

Chris



>> Ronald
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