[qmtest] rpm generation

[Mark Mitchell]

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 05:50, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> I'v been looking some more into the rpm generation issues.
> The problem of distutils using 'rpm' on RH8 has been addressed
> in python 2.2.3, see http://www.python.org/2.2.3/NEWS.txt.
> 
> Do you think it is appropriate to require this version ?

That's probably OK.

It's unfortunate, in that then as a packager you want to have two
Python's installed: one to package with and one to test with.  However,
as long as the bytecode generated by 2.2.3 can run on 2.2.1, that should
work.

I agree that copying large chunks of distutils code isn't very
attractive.

Let's not worry about this issue, in light of the fact that there are
now two work arounds for the packager: Python 2.2.3 and/or messing with
/etc/popt, and none of this affects the end-user.

The Windows issues is more important because the resulting package file
doesn't work.

Do you want to try to work on the QM_HOME bits?  If not, let me know,
and I will try to get to those.

Thanks,
 
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