what is the best way to prepare a source code distribution?

[markgalassi]

I don't see any setuptools or autotools for this project, so I wonder if there is a preferred way to prepare a source tarball. I have packaged RPMs in the past, with a tarball made by hand and a custom spec file which added a few homegrown rules.

But now I'm also preparing debian packages, and I'd like to have a more reproducible way to go from repository to debian or RPM package.

Is your thought that nsiqcppstyle should eventualy have one of these formal distribution approaches? Would you welcome a setup.py approach? Or is there already something and I have just not found it?

[kunaltyagi]

Would you welcome a setup.py approach?

Yes. There's no source code distribution so far.