Re: [Python-Dev] how GNU stow is complementary rather than alternative to distutils

2009-05-11 Thread Giuseppe Ottaviano
Talking of stow, I take advantage of this thread to do some shameless advertising :) Recently I uploaded to PyPI a software of mine, BPT [1], which does the same symlinking trick of stow, but it is written in Python (and with a simple api) and, more importantly, it allows with another trick

Re: [Python-Dev] how GNU stow is complementary rather than alternative to distutils

2009-05-10 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
following-up to my own post to mention one very important reason why anyone cares: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn zo...@zooko.com wrote: It is a beautiful, elegant hack because it is sooo dumb.  It is also very nice to use the same tool to manage packages written in any