[Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg replacement

[William Ray Wing]

On Feb 17, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Matthias Baas <matthias.baas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> a while back there has been a discussion about Python 3 support in
> bdist_mpkg. Basically, I was in the same situation as the original
> poster and was looking for a way to produce binary packages for Python 3.
> As it seemed that bdist_mpkg is not maintained anymore and it's using an
> obsolete package format anyway, I started getting my hands dirty and
> looked into writing a replacement for it. In the end, it wasn't actually
> that difficult and it works fine for my project now.
> 
> So far, I didn't publish it anywhere but if there's enough demand, I'd
> be happy to create a project space somewhere and make it available.
> It's implemented as a regular distutils command (called bdist_osxinst,
> similar to the existing bdist_wininst), so usage should be as you
> probably would expect. It works with Python 2 and 3 and I tried to make
> it fairly generic and not tailor it to my own project.
> 

I for one would be very interested in seeing what you've done.  So, yes,
+1 vote for that from me.

Thanks,
Bill