[Python-Dev] bdist_* to stdlib? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Feb 14 01:04:26 CET 2006


In private email, Phillip Eby suggested to add these things to the 2.5. standard library:

bdist_deb, bdist_msi, and friends

He explained them as follows:

""" bdist_deb makes .deb files (packages for Debian-based Linux distros, like Ubuntu). bdist_msi makes .msi installers for Windows (it's by Martin v. Loewis). Marc Lemburg proposed on the distutils-sig that these and various other implemented bdist_* formats (other than bdist_egg) be included in the next Python release, and there was no opposition there that I recall. """

I guess bdist_egg should also be added if we support setuptools (not setuplib as I mistakenly called it previously)? (I'm still a bit unclear on the various concepts here, not having made a distribution of anything in a very long time...)

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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