Packaging Robot Framework

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Available packages

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Currently only official distribution packages for Robot Framework are

source distributions and binary installers for Windows. See Robot

Framework User Guide's Installation and uninstallation section for

more information about them.

Additional installation packages can be created and distributed by

volunteers. We are also planning to support JAR and RPM packages in

the future. If you are interested to help, see issues #24 and #36 at

http://issues.robotframework.org and contact

robotframework-devel@googlegroups.com.

Creating packages

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Official Robot Framework distribution packages are created using

`package.py` script. This tool can create both source distributions

and Windows installers, and it has its own help text that is available

with command `python package.py help`.

`package.py` is a front-end for standard `setup.py` script, which uses

Python's distutils module internally. For more information about

distutils and creating packages with it see

http://docs.python.org/dist/dist.html.