Re: Mac Packaging for Terminal Applications?
Re: Mac Packaging for Terminal Applications?
- Subject: Re: Mac Packaging for Terminal Applications?
- From: Damian Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:02:23 -0700
Yes, it already uses distutils for installation and deb/rpm generation. I've been shying away from distributing to 3rd party repos like cheeseshop since it takes package distribution out of my hands (I'd be relying on them being responsive to updates) and from feedback I've gotten so far there doesn't seem to be interest in fetching it that way. I'll solicit input from users to see how much interest there is in a macport distribution method. Thanks for the help! -Damian
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, David Buxton
<email@hidden> wrote:
On 8 Sep 2010, at 17:39, Damian Johnson wrote:
> Hi, I'm currently working on packaging for a command line application of mine (
http://www.atagar.com/arm). It's a python script so installing via a tarball hasn't been a problem for mac users so far, but I'm trying to make things easier. I just started distributing debs/rpms for Linux distributions, and I'm not sure of the proper counterpart for Macs. There seems to be two options:
Here's the relevant bit in distutils about packaging command-line tools: http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html#installing-scripts
David B.
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