On Jan 12, 2008 2:13 PM, Jed Frechette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 12, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Charles Lepple wrote: > > > On Jan 7, 2008 10:57 AM, Jed Frechette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was wondering if there was a reason why docutils gets installed to > >> %p/lib/docutils/ rather than site-packages? > > > > Jed, > > > > Brendan Cully and I talked about this about a year and a half ago, but > > essentially it is the way it is because at the time, the docutils > > utilities were the only tools using the interfaces in %p/lib/docutils. > > To package it properly would require creating -py* splitoffs for each > > of the various Python versions in Fink. (Because each Python major > > version uses different bytecode formats, packages like should be > > installed in version-specific site-packages directories.) > > > > With the Fink info file variant syntax, this should be simpler. I will > > try to take a look at that later this weekend. > > Thanks for looking at this, I knew there was probably some good > reason. I asked because I'm trying to package some of the Enthought > tools and their documentation generator Endo [1] tries to import > docutils.
Along these lines, the Fink docutils package currently does not depend on a specific version of Python (it explicitly uses /usr/bin/python in a few places). This isn't bad for a standalone tool, but it means that when someone upgrades to a version with stuff in site-packages, it will pull in a whole Fink python package if they don't have one already. > I also noticed that some of their scripts expect the rst2* > scripts to exist without the .py extension. I'm not sure how other > distros handle this but at least on my Debian box these scripts are > installed without the extension. The Debian packagers probably strip the .py extension off - it doesn't look like anything special is done for Fink. But I don't see why we can't make some symlinks for compatibility. > [1] https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/EndoHowTo Interesting, I'll have to check that out. -- - Charles Lepple ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
