On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 02:54:56PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote:
> Definitely. Red Hat and derivatives are still the prevalent distros.
For sufficiently large values of "derivatives".
Hehehehe yeah :)
> It *should* [knocks wood] be a matter of just copying the programs
> themselves (all the .py files) to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, and
> dropping the modules used into /usr/lib/python2.[0-4]/site-packages
> ... but it could still get interesting anyway :)
The number one issue is making sure the location in the shebang line
points to the real interpreter; if you get that right, you can take the
.py extensions off the user binaries and they'll still run. Whether
you should put them in a directory that's on the path is a maintainer
call.
Behold this spiffy magic:
#!/usr/bin/env python
As far as I know, every distro sets up "env" to spew the correct location of python (the above shebang has never failed to work for me on any system I've tried it on).
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