Added note about new distutils commands.

dd8c6e26 · Marc-André Lemburg · 6a0f60ac · dd8c6e26
Commit dd8c6e26 authored Apr 17, 2002 by Marc-André Lemburg
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@@ -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