Introduction

2013-09-08 Thread Jackson Doak
Hello everyone, i'm Jackson Doak. I would like to help with packing python modules. I am part of the pkg-xfce team and have a number of python packages currently on debian mentors. I am also an ubuntu member. Can someone please add me to the SVN? My alioth username is noskcaj-guest -- To

Installing platform-independent resources outside the Python package (was: Specifying ‘--install-data’ for each binary package)

2013-09-08 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: In that case, I currently have no good solution. I had hoped to use some Python standard-library resource access function to find the files wherever they are installed. I have hacked a work-around: * Patch the ‘MANIFEST.in’ and ‘setup.py’ to omit