Working on a rather large open source python application that I want to release for Linux and BSD and was wondering what methods others are using to distribute large and complex applications.
Setuptools and friends seem to be focused on distributing modules, I'm at the other end of the scale where I want to distribute an entire application so that an Administrator can run a single install and have a fully operational product. A key requirement is that I want the application to fit in with what and admin would expect an application to look like at the system level i.e site-packages like structures aren't suitable. So far I've thought of using a configure script and make which would call some custom python installer script to do the actual install. It fits in nicely with what I want to achieve but are there any better options out there, how are others doing the same thing? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
