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60 | Using the Distutils is quite simple, both for module developers and for | |
61 | users/administrators installing third-party modules. As a developer, | |
62 | your responsibilities (apart from writing solid, well-documented and | |
63 | well-tested code, of course!) are: | |
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66 | <LI>write a setup script (<span class="file">setup.py</span> by convention) | |
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70 | <LI>create a source distribution | |
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75 | Each of these tasks is covered in this document. | |
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78 | Not all module developers have access to a multitude of platforms, so | |
79 | it's not always feasible to expect them to create a multitude of built | |
80 | distributions. It is hoped that a class of intermediaries, called | |
81 | <em>packagers</em>, will arise to address this need. Packagers will take | |
82 | source distributions released by module developers, build them on one or | |
83 | more platforms, and release the resulting built distributions. Thus, | |
84 | users on the most popular platforms will be able to install most popular | |
85 | Python module distributions in the most natural way for their platform, | |
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