Bob Ippolito wrote: > On Dec 13, 2005, at 3:34 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'd like to focus attention on these distribution formats >>> that distutils is missing: >>> >> >> I'd like to another important candidate to the list: >> >> bdist_mpkg: >> Mac OS X installer format >> Part of py2app by Bob Ippolito >> http://undefined.org/python/py2app.html#bdist-mpkg-documentation > > bdist_mpkg is actually available on its own now, but I'm not sure adding > it to distutils is a great idea. The current version is already moved > over to setuptools, and I'm pretty close to adding egg support to it. I > may even require that the Python bits of the installation package are > eggs, as that would allow me to remove a bunch of code. Eggs mostly > obsolete what bdist_mpkg is for, but it's also used to install things > like documentation and example code, so I'm not going to drop it > altogether.
Looks like now is a good time to add it to distutils then :-) Eggs are nice for plugins and application add-ons, but I don't think they should be used for system wide installation of Python extensions - these need to be under the control of the system's installer which also deals with the Python installation itself. -- 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
