On Jan 4, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:
I'd never even heard of .pydistutils.cfg. I've added a note to the FAQ pointing to it.
It has some more features in Python 2.4, you can use it to add new build command packages to distutils out-of-tree (like py2app, bdist_mpkg, etc.). Of course, very few distutils extensions are implemented in away that is compatible with this new feature, but it's there and I'll probably end up making py2app and bdist_mpkg compatible.
Then I looked at the distutils code, and noticed that there's also an optional distutils.cfg inside the package. So that made me wonder: we could install a symlink in /System/yaddayaddayadda/lib/python2.3/distutils/distutils.cfg that points to, say, /Library/Python/2.3/distutils.cfg, and put an (admin-editable) file there that directs scripts tot the right place system wide (/usr/local/bin by default, probably).
+1 on the idea +1 for /usr/local/bin as the "right place"
Not so sure about install-data pointing to /usr/local/share (earlier on in the thread), because some packages might try and locate their data files using means other than distutils (sys.prefix relative). I have never seen one of these packages, but god knows one has to exist. In my experience, most packages seem to use install-data for documentation and maybe example code if anything.
-bob
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