On 2009-03-27 20:56, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: >> M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>> On 2009-03-27 04:19, Guido van Rossum wrote: >>>> - keep distutils, but start deprecating certain higher-level >>>> functionality in it (e.g. bdist_rpm) >>>> - don't try to provide higher-level functionality in the stdlib, but >>>> instead let third party tools built on top of these core APIs compete >>> Should this be read as: >>> >>> - remove bdist_rpm from the stdlib and let it live on PyPI >>> >>> ? >> As one of the people who proposed this, I think it means: move bdist_rpm, >> bdist_msi, etc. out of distutils, but provide some of them with the standard >> Python installation. I'm certain that as part of the refactoring and >> simplification of distutils we'll gradually move the existing bdist_* >> commands into separate, stand-alone "things" (scripts, callable modules, or >> something). We'll need to do this if only for testing, so we may as well >> make them work. > > One of the motivations for deprecating this (and for using this > specific example) was that Matthias Klose, the Python packager for > Debian, said he never uses bdist_rpm.
Why would a Debian developer want to use bdist_rpm ? Perhaps you meant a bdist_deb command, but that's not part of the stdlib distutils. More importantly: Why is the non-use of a command by a single Python developer enough motivation to remove a useful feature of distutils that's been in use by many others for years ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 27 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2009-03-19: Released mxODBC.Connect 1.0.1 http://python.egenix.com/ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
