[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. I've just finished to write an FTP daemon in Python. > To do things well I'd like to write an 'insteller' to permit the end > user to 'deeply' install the package inside the system. In details I > would like that installer is able to do the following operations: > > - copy ftpd.py in /usr/bin. > - depending on the system, it should be able to determinate where > service startup directory is located (for example /etc/init.d) and > copy a script able to automatically run /usr/ftpd.py at startup. > - optionally install a manual callable with "man ftpd". > - many other operations about the installation of a package. > > What should I use to do something like that? Do I have to use > distutils? Do I have to use third party packages? Do I have to write a > "setup.py" and solve the problem manually? > This last solution is problematic becouse, for (dumb) example, Debian > wants executable/programs to be located in /usr/bin while Fedora uses > another path (for example /usr/sbin). > > Another question: what about .deb, .rpm, [...] packages? > Does it possible to use them with Python programs? > Resolving third party dependancies by using them could be a nice thing.
You can use setuptools to generate scripts in the various bin-directories. And of course you could try and make setup.py detect the system & adapt the necessary paths accordingly. But the best thing to do would certainly be a package - however, I'm not aware that there is any support for that. But a look here might be a start: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPythonFAQ Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list