>>>>> "ESR" == Eric S Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> writes: ESR> In the course of maintaining fetchmail, I've developed ESR> effective techniques for integrating RPM and lsm generation ESR> into the release machinery of a package. I'm willing to do ESR> this for Python; it will involve adding a makefile production ESR> and a couple of scripts to the distribution. ESR> The benefit would be that we could generate correct RPMs ESR> automatically and ship them with each release. I think RPM is ESR> a sufficiently important distribution format to justify this ESR> effort. Comments? We are now distributing RPMs for RH 6 with Python and have plans to support other distributions we have access to, namely those available on the SF compile farm. This page has the RPMs: http://www.pythonlabs.com/products/python2.0/download_python2.0b2.html Can you compare this approach to using a hand-crafted .spec file for the RPMs? It took a little while to figure out how to generate the .spec, but now that it has been created it does not seem hard to maintain. I imagine, without knowing any details of what you propose, that this is primarily beneficial for people who do not know how to build RPMs. Jeremy
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