Re: [matplotlib-devel] Announcing toydist, improving distribution and packaging situation

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

Stefan Schwarzburg wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to add a comment from the user perspective:
>
> - the main reason why I'm not satisfied with pypi/distutils/etc. and
> why I will not be satisfied with toydist (with the features you
> listed), is that they break my installation (debian/ubuntu). The main
> advantage of these kinds of linux is their packaging system. So even
> if there is a way to query if a python package is installed, I will
> need three or more commands to check if it really is there (toydist,
> distutils, aptitude and other packages installed by hand).

I am interested in adapting stdeb ( http://github.com/astraw/stdeb ) to
handle toydist distributions. Nevertheless, the goals of toydist seem
mostly unrelated to your issue with the exception that toydist will
hopefully make generating .deb packages easier and more robust.

See http://github.com/astraw/stdeb/issues#issue/16 for a wishlist item
that I think would solve your issue. In that ticket, I give the steps
required to solve the issue -- I don't think it looks too hard, and
patches will be reviewed with a goal of producing something that gets
merged.

-Andrew