On 9/29/05, Todd Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This definitely feels like an abuse of /opt/ but I don't think that splitting
> this up all over the place is going to work either.  I have 99.44% convinced
> myself that /usr/share/$pkgname is appropriate with a scipt in /usr/bin that
> calls the executable under /usr/share/

You shouldn't distribute the c++ code.  Don't copy over the .hpp and
.cpp files (or the .o).  You also shouldn't need the setup.py file,
which maybe you should use (as it looks like it has a distutils
functionality) - "python setup.py install --root=/usr" ??


> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pacman -Ql shedskin
> shedskin /opt/
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/LICENSE
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/README
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/bert.py
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/builtin_.py
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/copy_.py
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/hoppa
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/libss.a
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/math_.py
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/random_.py
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/sets_.py
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/ss.py
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/sys_.py
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/test.py
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/unit.py
> shedskin /opt/shedskin/uuf250-010.cnf
> shedskin /usr/
> shedskin /usr/bin/
> shedskin /usr/bin/ss
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 28 September 2005 11:24 am, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On 9/28/05, Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > You should probably be installing the python scripts to site-packages,
> > > e.g. via distutils.  That's the right place for Python stuff, but I'm
> > > not sure about the rest.
> > >
> > > http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/doc/
> >
> > That's not nessecarilly true - site-packages is for python _modules_.
> > If it is a series of stand-alone applications they do not belong in
> > site-packages.
> >
> > > On 9/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > What is the *right* place to install an application that is basically
> > > > just a directory full of python scripts and such... An example app
> > > > would be shedskin
> > > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=2254 .
> >
> > Hmmm, I don't have time to build and look into it - can you give me
> > the filelist from makepkg (just email the text, it can't be that
> > much).  For the most part, everything should be under /usr, with
> > binaries in bin and data in share/<pkgname> - I'd like to see a list
> > of what you're installing to better diagnose.
> >
> > > > I am currently dumping the whole thing into /opt/$pkgname but it seems
> > > > like an abuse of /opt.  Would /usr/share/$pkgname be better?  Or is
> > > > somewhere else more appropriate?
> >
> > I personally feel /opt is overused.  /opt, to me, is for very large
> > piles of related stuff.  kde, gnome, and the mozilla suite should go
> > there, but something like bittorrent (which was in /opt a while back)
> > doesn't belong there - it's only 3 or 4 executables and some python
> > site-packages.
> >
> > - phrak -
> >
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