[Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Apr 23 05:35:30 CEST 2006


Anthony Baxter wrote:

On Sunday 23 April 2006 11:43, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Maybe we need something that's the equivalent of alien (rpm -> dpkg converter), so that given an egg, one can easily get a native installer for that egg. An 'eggconvert' that used the existing bdistfoo machinery to build system specific packages would probably be an ok summer of code project, no?

It sounds like an excellent one if you can find the right mentor. . .

Cheers, Nick.

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