"Gustavo Carneiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now the problem. Suppose you have the source package python-foo-bar, > which installs $pythondir/foo/__init__.py and $pythondir/foo/bar.py. This > would make a module called "foo.bar" available. Likewise, you can have the > source package python-foo-zbr, which installs $pythondir/foo/__init__.py and > $pythondir/foo/zbr.py. This would make a module called "foo.zbr" available. > > The two packages above install the file $pythondir/foo/__init__.py. If > one of them adds some content to __init__.py, the other one will overwrite > it. Packaging these two packages for e.g. debian would be extremely > difficult, because no two .deb packages are allowed to intall the same file. > > One solution is to generate the __init__.py file with post-install hooks > and shell scripts. Another solution would be for example to have only > python-foo-bar install the __init__.py file, but then python-foo-zbr would > have to depend on python-foo-bar, while they're not really related.
Yet another solution would be to put foo/__init__.py into a third package, e.g. python-foo, on which both python-foo-bar and python-foo-zbr depend. Bernhard -- Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ Skencil http://skencil.org/ Thuban http://thuban.intevation.org/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
