OptimizationKit 0.1.2-rc1

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Luke Macken wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:25:23PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> I wrote:
>>>   
>>>> It is preferred to have separate compilation and installation steps rather
>>>>     
>>> Actually, in this case, it's 100% Python, so there's no compilation needed 
>>> at all. Thus I don't see what's wrong with only an install.sh in this 
>>> case!
>>>
>>> Why use an overengineered system like autotools when all you need is to 
>>> copy some files to some predefined directories?
>>>
>>>         Kevin Kofler
>>>
>>>   
>> For python packages, the correct solution would be a setup.py file using 
>> the disthelper system in python.
> 
> If you believe that disthelper is the "correct" way to package Python modules,
> I would suggest you propose it to the Packaging committee, as our current
> Python packaging guidelines only make note of distutils and setuptool.
> 
> I'm not opposed to disthelper, but since it's not even in Fedora,
> I don't see it as a reasonable solution to start recommending to packagers.
> 
 From a brief look at the docs, it is a tool to create setup.py files so 
it probably doesn't need the Packaging Committee to get involved. 
However, it would be nice to get it packaged and into Fedora....

-Toshio

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