Re: code packaging

2007-07-23 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes: > You can go further: in addition to developing a Debian package (or a > few of them) for your own project, build your OS image using > debootstrap (you'll probably want your own local repository(ies), for > reproducibility). Then you do your development in

Re: code packaging

2007-07-22 Thread Alex Popescu
On 7/22/07, Ryan Ginstrom <> wrote: > Hi Alex: > > Do you develop for Windows? Are you looking to automate a build > process? > > The standard library's build module is distutils: > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html > > As I mentioned in my post, I use a variety of third-party mo

RE: code packaging

2007-07-21 Thread Alex Popescu
"Ryan Ginstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> On Behalf Of Paul Rubin >> I'm wondering how other projects go about this. > > I develop an automated build system from the very beginning. Running > the build script: > * Creates the API documentation (epydoc) > * Creates t

Re: code packaging

2007-07-21 Thread John J. Lee
Paul Rubin writes: [...] > I'm now wondering where this type of thing is best addressed in more > general terms. What I usually see happening, in projects I've worked > on and in others, is that developers get the code working on their own > computers, using source contr

RE: code packaging

2007-07-20 Thread Ryan Ginstrom
> On Behalf Of Paul Rubin > I'm wondering how other projects go about this. I develop an automated build system from the very beginning. Running the build script: * Creates the API documentation (epydoc) * Creates the help files (extracting some information from the source) * Builds a windows exec

Re: code packaging

2007-07-20 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Rubin writes: > Is this appropriate? Inappropriate? Do your projects start using > serious packaging and distribution tools very early in development, > before the code is anywhere near usable? Should they? Yes. Test-driven development has taught me that putting

Re: code packaging

2007-07-20 Thread Miki
Hello Paul, > I'm now wondering where this type of thing is best addressed in more > general terms. What I usually see happening, in projects I've worked > on and in others, is that developers get the code working on their own > computers, using source control tools and (if we're lucky) tests > d