On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:17:35AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > > Not quite happy. I hope if you had comments on my last note, > > about hard-wiring paths in configure time. It's really a big > > question for me, where to hard wire paths? I'm to write a suite > > If you can, don't hardwire them at all. If you can't configure time is > the best thing, I think. > > > of Python scripts for managing course material here in U of T, > > and I don't want to go through all that autoconf stuff. Well, I > > It's actually quite easy. If you're writing pure python, you can hook > into the python installation process automagically as another option.
I'm pretty new to Python. Do you have another line about this last piece? > > can go by just hard-wiring /etc/mypackage and ~/.mypackage/. > > ~/.mypackage is reasonable, /etc/mypackage less so, IMHO. What if the > user wants it in /usr/local/etc/ or /opt? autoconf is the way to go. > > > > > PS. Perhaps it's too soon, but: "Everybody, come to Ottawa Linux > > > > Symposium '2004 http://www.linuxsymposium/. It's a great event". > > > > > > Oh, I'll be there, you can count on it. I decided not to go to > > > linux.conf.au even though my paper was accepted to be extra certain > > > I'll make it to OLS. See you there :-) > > > > Pretty far AU. So, waiting for you on the reg. desk. > > Oh, you're helping ajh and co run it this year? cool! Planning to leave for Ottawa soon, so can do some like that. Too soon yet ;). ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]