Hello, I'm new to this list so I will introduce myself... I'm an italian Ph.D. student working on http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/PythonModulePackaging http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagesFromPyPi as google's SummerOfCode project. Basically ubuntu (a debian derivative distro) wants: 1. a tool to create packages of python modules "automatically" from PyPI (like EasyInstall does with eggs) 2. a setup where on python upgrade all compatible python modules are migrated to the new installation. I'm quite new to distutils so I'd like comments / critics / suggestions... I hope ubuntu will adopt my work for breezy: I will actually code what we all decide is the best solution (they pay me for this work). Regards Vincenzo Alle 21:34, sabato 16 luglio 2005, Robert Kern ha scritto:
I tried doing a bit of EasyInstall evangelism, and apparently, the Kool-Aid isn't quite sweet enough yet. ;-)
I got feedback from someone trying the very first example with SQLObject in the documentation. He is using Debian Linux and thus does not install anything that's not from a .deb into /usr/lib. User-installed Python packages need to go into /usr/local/lib/python2.x/site-packages. To encourage this, Debian's site.py is patched to add that to the list of .pth-enabled directories. I imagine that similarly conscientious/anal distributions do likewise.
My friend is a bit more conservative than that, even. He manages /usr/local using GNU Stow so he can make installations as non-root. This is very important to him. He's even willing to use tricky .pth hacks[1] to permit this.
Fortunately, all of his technical concerns can be addressed by adding --site-dirs.
[1] As documented here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/1895