Bob Ippolito wrote: > On Dec 13, 2005, at 11:13 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>>>> 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 :-) > > No. Definitely not. > ... > In other words, I don't consent to adding bdist_mpkg to Python until it > supports eggs.
Ok, then I'll remove the above candidate from the list. Anyone else interested in writing a bdist_mpkg command that doesn't require setuptools ? Given the good documentation for the format, this shouldn't be hard: http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/PackageMaker_Howto.html -- 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
