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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

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Python distutils and Arch

Was just reading through PEP 356: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0356/ which discusses the 2.5 python roadmap. Two things that have been deferred until 2.6 are bdist_deb and bdist_egg targets. I started wondering if there were modules to allow me to build .debs with distutils without having it built in....

I didn't check before I started wondering if it would be possible to write a distutils module that causes setup.py to spit out Arch PKGBUILDs. Apparently distutils will have requires, provides, and obsoletes keywords.

I love how easy it is to create source distributions using distutils... would be lovely if I could create PKGBUILD's just as easily.

I have no time to implement this or find out how it would be done, so I thought I'd put the idea out to the community and see if anybody else is interested or might try it.

Dusty

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