[Distutils] Re: [Python-Dev] Killing off bdist_dumb (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:13:11 +0100

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

amk wrote:

In the commentary attached to bug #410541, I suggest removing the bdistdumb command, because no interesting platforms actually install from zip files. how is bdistdumb different from a plain bdist? if you decide to keep it in there, can you at least fix the help text: bdist create a built (binary) distribution

Hmm, I wonder why bdist is mentioned here: it's the base class driving all the other sub-commands. bdist doesn't do anything on its own.

bdistdumb create a "dumb" built distribution bdistrpm create an RPM distribution bdistwininst create an executable installer for MS Windows

oh, dumb really means "dumb". that's helpful.

From the doc-string:

create a "dumb" built distribution -- i.e., just an archive to be unpacked under prefixorprefix or prefixorexec_prefix.

The short info should probably be:

create a drop-in installation archive

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