[Python-Dev] Packaging and binary distributions for Python 3.3 (original) (raw)

Éric Araujo merwok at netwok.org
Thu Oct 13 18:35:06 CEST 2011

Hi Nick,

Le 11/10/2011 03:29, Nick Coghlan a écrit :

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

Ideally bdistwininst and bdistmsi would also integrate with pysetup and with virtual environments, but I imagine that could be pretty hard to make work cleanly, as Windows doesn't really support multiple installations of a software package... That's OK, the package managers get bypassed by pysetup on POSIX systems as well - that's kind of the point of language level virtual environments I’m not sure I follow you. wininst and msi installers are supposed to work with the Windows programs manager, it is not bypassed at all IIUC. That’s the difficulty: How to make the Add/Remove program aware of many Pythons and venvs?

There are hard to build packages on POSIX (e.g. PIL) that would also benefit from a good, cross-platform approach to binary installation. We haven’t talked about cross-platform binary installers. The current gist of the discussion seems to point to a world where people continue to release an sdist for capable OSes and also publish one bdist_simple with .pyd for one Windows version and one bdist_simple with .so for one Mac OS X version (but possible many arches). (And given that it’s possible to have one setup.cfg and one setup.py coexisting, maybe eggs will be offered for a while too.)

Regards

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