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Re:Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere by rlpb on Friday June 22, 2012 @12:12PM (#4147383)
> Creating platform-specific packages is nontrivial

Not so much any more - for some platforms, anyway: http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/01/msg00007.html

Re:Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere by jeramey on Friday June 22, 2012 @12:22PM (#4147437)
Also look at fpm: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki

This sysadmin uses it frequently and it's a big time-saver for many software packages.