Re: [Pyobjc-dev] 1.0 released

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 13:55 America/New_York, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> Why isn't bundlebuilder integrated into distutils anyways?
>
> I don't know what the advantages would be, but I'd be interested in
> hearing your opinion. Here's the thread Dinu mentioned:
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/pythonmac-sig/1812472

You're right in that bundlebuilder and distutils use cases don't really 
overlap at the moment.  After reading that thread and thinking a bit 
more I see that bundlebuilder, in the future, will definitely be using 
distutils for a lot of functionality (building dependencies, searching 
the installed package database, etc), but I don't think distutils will 
really be using bundlebuilder.

It would be kinda convenient to have a "setup.py" equivalent for making 
executables.. where a distutils-like-thing would be in place to do 
platform detection and make py2exe, bundlebuilder, etc. do the right 
thing for the target platform.  It would also be nice if there was a 
way to tell bundlebuilder to go ahead and make a compressed .dmg or 
tarball for you with the application and associated files (examples, 
license (maybe with the special .dmg license-acceptance support), 
readme, whatever).

Dinu mentioned that it would be nice to have PyPI integration with 
sites like versiontracker, macupdate, etc.  I'd also include freshmeat 
on my list.. but anyways, I'm not sure if PyPI really works for 
applications, there should probably be something else for posting 
applications.  PyPI metadata -> freshmeat would be nice though.

-bob