On 23 May 2012 07:48, Tarek Ziadé <ta...@ziade.org> wrote: > On 5/23/12 8:16 AM, Robert Park wrote: > >> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Tarek Ziadé<ta...@ziade.org> wrote: >> >>> If you are a packager for a project, you can describe in details your >>> data >>> files, and add more metadata that are understood by PyPI. >>> >>> If you are a debian packager, you will be able to define where the data >>> files of a python project should be installed without having to patch >>> some >>> python code. >>> >> This right here is the killer feature for me. By my limited >> observations, most people solve the data files problem either by >> dumping their data files inside their python modules (which is an ugly >> abuse of the filesystem), or are simply using the cumbersome autotools >> in order to record the installation prefix for their data files. It >> blows my mind that it is standard practice for many GNOME apps written >> in Python to use a C compilation preprocessor in order to set a python >> variable so their python scripts can find their data files. >> >> Currently I am hacking distutils in order to accomplish this, like so: >> >> https://github.com/robru/**gottengeography/blob/master/**setup.py<https://github.com/robru/gottengeography/blob/master/setup.py> >> >> But this is ugly because it modifies the file in-place, so I always >> have to be careful not to accidentally commit the munged file into my >> git repo. >> >> It's absolutely critical that any replacement for distutils have >> built-in functionality for installed python code being able to query >> at run-time the location that data files were placed at install time. >> >> Please read this section and let us know what you think: > > http://docs.python.org/dev/**packaging/setupcfg.html#**resources<http://docs.python.org/dev/packaging/setupcfg.html#resources>
How do gettext translation files fit into this scheme? Should they go under appdata? > > > This works in conjunction with the new sysconfig module, which can be > configured system-wide by the linux distribution, or locally per projet > > Then you can use an API to get the file from your code. > > Gosh the documentation is a mess ... we need to fix this - it has bits > from the previous version that should be removed :( > > Cheers > Tarek > > ______________________________**_________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig> >
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