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

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Tue Feb 14 08:19:46 CET 2006

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:04:26PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:

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

bdistdeb, bdistmsi, and friends

FWIW, I've been using a patched distutils with bdist_deb, and it's worked fine for the most part. The only issue I had was with a setuptools package (rather than distutils), which I'm sure can be worked out. (Not that I'm particularly convinced setuptools is the right approach for a .deb, but I haven't really seen the point of setuptools anyway ;)

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