2009/9/29 Ben Finney <[email protected]>: > Olof Bjarnason <[email protected]> writes: > >> I guess "sdist_*" stands for "source distribution", and likewise >> "bdist_*" stands for "binary distribution"? > > Why are you guessing? You've been researching Python's distutils since > several days ago, no? These terms are in the documentation you were > directed to very early on: > > <URL:http://docs.python.org/distutils/introduction.html> > > Your questions about these commands and terms suggest you haven't yet > read the documentation that you acknowledged was a necessary first step.
Yeah sorry about that. I was going through a lot of different tools; and the clarification about bdist/sdist was not obvious from the first few pages of distutils documentation. > > -- > \ “Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the | > `\ frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, | > _o__) it is no longer so.” —Voltaire, _Dictionnaire Philosophique_ | > Ben Finney > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- twitter.com/olofb olofb.wordpress.com olofb.wordpress.com/tag/english _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
