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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 15 01:51:03 CET 2006


Thomas Wouters wrote:

Actually, that's where distutils and bdist* comes in. Mr. Random Developer writes a regular distutils setup.py, and I can install the latest, not-quite-in-apt version by doing 'setup.py bdistdeb' and installing the resulting .deb.

Why not just do 'setup.py install' directly?

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