Fredrik Lundh wrote:
barry wrote:
MAL> The user would in both cases type 'python setup.py install' MAL> but the install command would automatically choose the MAL> right target subdir (site-packages/ or system-packages/).
Except you can't always tell if its a system package or an add-on. email for example is an add-on for Python 2.1, but a system package for Python 2.2.
assuming that the package maintainer is informed when a package is added to the standard library, that packages won't move in and out too much, and/or that most users probably don't want to down- grade to an older package version, you could of course write:
if sys.version_info >= (2, 2): pkgtype = "system-package" else: pkgtype = "site-package"
setup(... pkgtype=pkgtype ...)
in your setup.py file, once your package has been added.
Right. A package author whose package moves into the core would have to do this anyway, if s/he wants to maintain backwards compatibility with older Python versions, since the distutils package in those versions would not accept the new keyword. Anyway, regardless of how we do it, we need to add the 'system-packages' dir to just before the '.../lib/pythonX.X' entry in sys.path. If there's consent about this, I'd suggest to move ahead in this direction as first step. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH _______________________________________________________________________ eGenix.com -- Makers of the Python mx Extensions: mxDateTime,mxODBC,... Python Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/