From: Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 20:33:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added note about new distutils commands.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~5903
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1ec71ea48e344a556bf1ecfbe5d31913f48c091c;p=python

Added note about new distutils commands.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 35d72483a2..bbaf2d97dd 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -87,6 +87,15 @@ Extension modules
 
 Library
 
+- New distutils commands for building packagers were added to
+  support pkgtool on Solaris and swinstall on HP-UX.
+
+- distutils now has a new abstract binary packager base class
+  command/bdist_packager, which simplifies writing packagers.
+  This will hopefully provide the missing bits to encourage
+  people to submit more packagers, e.g. for Debian, FreeBSD
+  and other systems.
+
 - The UTF-16, -LE and -BE now raise a NotImplementedError
   for all calls to .readline(). Previously, they used to just
   produce garbage or fail with an encoding error -- UTF-16 is