On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:35:18 -0500, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote:
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On Jan 29, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le mercredi 28 janvier 2009 à 08:07 -0500, Barry Warsaw a écrit :
I'd like to make a radical suggestion: upstream authors should never
have to worry about building distribution blobs.
This is just silly. You don’t have to worry about the distribution’s
internals, and what is specific to each package format, but the very
idea of developing without any kind of knowledge about how the software
will integrate on a system is a guaranteed recipe for a development
disaster.
That's not what I'm saying. What I'm really saying is that I don't want to
have to run 5 different setup.py commands every time I do a release in
order to upload all the possible distribution formats that my users may
want.
Barry, just have your buildbot do it for you - and not just when you do a
release, but every time you commit. As a bonus, it can then install the
packages and run your test suite and tell you if you've got installation
problems (or any other bugs) on any of the platforms. :)
Jean-Paul
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