Hi, I'd like to focus attention on these distribution formats that distutils is missing:
bdist_nsis: Nullsoft installer for Windows (NSIS); by Jean-Christophe G. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-July/004724.html http://bdist-nsi.sourceforge.net/ bdist_deb: Debian package; by Geoffrey T. Dairiki http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2004/10/msg00017.html bdist_msi: MS Installer (MSI); by Martin von Löwis http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-August/005008.html bdist_inno: InnoSetup installer for Windows Included in py2exe by Thomas Heller: http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ bdist_pkgtool: Package format used on Solaris There was a code contribution by Mark Alexander for this, but it had to be removed due to licensing issues: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/python/python/dist/src/Lib/distutils/command/Attic/ bdist_sdux: Package format used on HP-UX Same issues as with bdist_pkgtool. Ideally, I'd like to see all of these added to distutils. The standard procedure for this is to: 1. Find a maintainer for the code; ideally the author him/herself 2. Get the author to sign the PSF contribution form: http://www.python.org/psf/contrib.html 3. Add the code to distutils Since these are plain additions to distutils, I don't think we need a PEP for the integration. Would any of the authors (I've tried to CC them) be willing to contribute their distutils command to the PSF for integration ? Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 13 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
