Terry Carroll wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Terry Carroll wrote: >> It would be nice if Eyed3, which is not OS-specific, did not have >> such an OS-specific install process.
Perhaps. But someone who cares about windows support would have to
submit patches. I don't know if Travis uses windows or not. I have
submitted a number of patches to eyeD3, but I don't use windows at all
myself. I can't see spending any time to support a proprietary OS. :)
And, to be fair, the install process isn't really OS-specific. It
works on a large number of operating systems -- just not on Windows.
> You know, I just reinstalled Eyed3, and compared the installed
> result to the six files distributed in the zipped tarfile, and
> they're identical except that one file is named __init__.py.in
> instead of __init__.py, and has two doc variables defined with
> templates.
>
> If you want to avoid having to install a Unix-like environment,
> I suggest you just
>
> 1) unzip and untar the zipped tarfile,
> 2) copy the eyeD3 directory from eyeD3-0.6.16/src/ to Python's
> Lib/site-packages/ directory
> 3) rename __init__.py.in to __init__.py
> 4) (probably cosmetic) in __init__.py, edit the lines:
>
> eyeD3Version = "@PACKAGE_VERSION@";
> eyeD3Maintainer = "@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@";
>
> to:
>
> eyeD3Version = "0.6.16";
> eyeD3Maintainer = "Travis Shirk <tra...@pobox.com>";
>
> Someone else will now explain why this is a terrible idea.
I don't think it is a bad idea at all. I was going to suggest
something similar. If you do that, you should be able to copy the
src/eyeD3 directory somewhere in your PYTHONPATH and use it just fine.
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