Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Thanks for the pointers. The only thing I'm concerned about is while > scons and waf are both Python based, they're still not accepted > packages in Python proper. That being said, neither is setuptools. >
Yes, that's why I meant by "this is not meant as a general thing". I was not sure whether you wanted to solve the problem at large or only for your own application. > Has there been talk of a standard python packaging tool being > integrated into the interpreter suite? > A lot or not really depending on what you mean by packaging tool, but this is a difficult topic. For once, the general rule for a package to be included into python stdlib is to have already a relatively big user-base - which is inherently difficult for a distribution tool. The only way to get a userbase is to be backward compatible, but being backward compatible with distutils means recreating all its flaws (command-based, option handling, mixing metadata and code, etc....). This is the main practical difficulty (besides implementing a good tool, of course - but those tools already exist or could be relatively easily integrated). cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
