[reportlab-users] Anyone understand distutils

[Dinu Gherman]

Jerome Alet:

> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 05:04:12PM +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
>>> I looked in the sources and wininst is the only one to have such.
>>
>> Yes, but what does RPM itself do?  Are there standard
>> things it executes which people could be using? I know
>> that the Solaris PJG format has provision for scripts
>> like 'before install', 'after install','before uninstall'
>
> Debian packages too AFAIK.

Mac OS X packages (.pkg, .mpkg), too. The nice thing, there, is
that you can use such scripts also to compile the package before
installing it, which is rather unual on this platform as most free
software for it still comes as tar balls or via the fink system,
which is something Debian-like.

Dinu

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