Python Daemon Packaging Best Practices

Question

I have a tool which I have written in python and generally should be run as a daemon. What are the best practices for packaging this tool for distribution, particularly how sho

Answer 1

Check the Ben Finney's daemon module. He has started to write a PEP targeting python 3.X:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3143/

But an implementation is already available here :

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/