Hello, I'm new to this list so I will introduce myself... I'm an italian Ph.D. student working on http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/PythonModulePackaging http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagesFromPyPi as google's SummerOfCode project.
Basically ubuntu (a debian derivative distro) wants: 1. a tool to create packages of python modules "automatically" from PyPI (like EasyInstall does with eggs) 2. a setup where on python upgrade all compatible python modules are migrated to the new installation. I'm quite new to distutils so I'd like comments / critics / suggestions... I hope ubuntu will adopt my work for breezy: I will actually code what we all decide is the best solution (they pay me for this work). Regards Vincenzo Alle 21:34, sabato 16 luglio 2005, Robert Kern ha scritto: > I tried doing a bit of EasyInstall evangelism, and apparently, the > Kool-Aid isn't quite sweet enough yet. ;-) > > I got feedback from someone trying the very first example with SQLObject > in the documentation. He is using Debian Linux and thus does not install > anything that's not from a .deb into /usr/lib. User-installed Python > packages need to go into /usr/local/lib/python2.x/site-packages. To > encourage this, Debian's site.py is patched to add that to the list of > .pth-enabled directories. I imagine that similarly conscientious/anal > distributions do likewise. > > My friend is a bit more conservative than that, even. He manages > /usr/local using GNU Stow so he can make installations as non-root. This > is very important to him. He's even willing to use tricky .pth hacks[1] > to permit this. > > Fortunately, all of his technical concerns can be addressed by adding > --site-dirs. > > [1] As documented here: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/1895 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
