On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, somewhat. I've loaded an Ubuntu VM to check it out, but I'm pretty > busy at the moment, so not sure when I'll get to a fix. The problem is a > Ubuntu (and maybe Debian?) specific Python install, which by default only > looks in /usr/lib/python2.7/SITE- > packages/, but installs to /usr/lib/python2.7/DIST- > packages/. Don't ask me. I have no words. Strange. > If you give it a prefix (e.g., /usr/local) then it will automatically swap > out the site vs dist it seems, and the Python imports fine. However, we > don't handle it well when our resources are installed under somewhere other > than sys.prefix (a Meld problem, because we rely on distutils). > > Therefore, if you install to /usr, we can have our resources, and if you > install to /usr/local we can access our packages. Thanks for the explanation Kai. I really appreciate it. Let me know if I can help with any testing if someone works on a fix. Best, Scott _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
