Integrating PyInstaller into distutils

[htgoebel]

Original date: 2008/07/16

I suggest some kind of integration of PyInstaller into distutils. Using setuputils, adding new commands to distutils is charming easy.

This would allow better integration into some release process. E.g. origo-submit eases the release cycle very much (automated upload of dist-files and creation of a new release). This help "release early and often".

If PyInstaller would integrate here (in distutils), this would be great!

[htgoebel]

Original date: 2010/12/29

When #232 ("pyinstaller.py") and #304 (pyinstaller as package) are implemented, this is easy to achieve -- at least if setuptools are used.

Thus I propose putting this into milestone 1.5,

[htgoebel]

Original date: 2014/04/22

After reading http://packaging.python.org/en/latest/ and some of the stuff linked there, I doubt we should integrate PyInstaller into distutils.

[htgoebel]

I submitted this issue long time ago. But in the meantime I'm no longer convinced that this is useful. And this feature was not reqeusted by anybody else AFAIR.