Catalog of bdist_{rpm, deb, nsi, wininst, msi, esky, wheel} utilities?

[westurner]

There are myriad ways to generate OS packages and installers from setuptools. The question has been presented a number of times. Would a separate page for cataloging bdist_* methods be in scope for this project?

• http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1qx2nb/distributing_python_3_applications_very_tempted/cdhnwku
• http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1ew4l5/im_giving_a_demo_of_python_to_a_bunch_of_java/ca4gf55

[westurner]

• http://packaging.python.org/en/latest/projects.html
• http://packaging.python.org/en/latest/current.html (Tools)
• Other

[qwcode]

I think this section is the place for this, just needs some actual content
http://packaging.python.org/en/latest/deployment.html#os-packaging-installers

[westurner]

Good call. Would this also be a good place to mention conda as a cross-platform approach to packaging Python (and other language) packages?

[qwcode]

conda already has a subsection under here: http://packaging.python.org/en/latest/platforms.html#installing-scientific-packages

[hugovk]

By now, I think all of these, except wheel, are either removed, deprecated or at least discouraged.

Here's a discussion from this weekend with (so far) agreement on removing bdist_ wininst.

https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-bdist-wininst-command/6434?u=hugovk

See also:

• https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0527/
• Fully implement PEP 527 pypi/warehouse#6792
• Deprecate bdist_dumb, bdist_rpm, bdist_dmg, bdist_msi, bdist_wininst setuptools#1988

Anyway, I think this issue can be closed now.