[Distutils] Installing scripts to multiple directories
Michael Hudson
mwh@python.net
Thu Mar 13 12:15:02 2003
Harald Meland <Harald.Meland@usit.uio.no> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how I can make distutils support installation
> of scripts to more than one directory, e.g. both <prefix>/bin/ and
> <prefix>/sbin/.
>
> I've found an open bug[1] on this in the Python project on
> SourceForge, but it's now over a year since the person that bug is
> assigned to said that he would "look at this".
That would have been me. I've unassigned it from myself, which I
guess isn't progress... but is realistic, I'm afraid.
> I started by looking through the documentation, but could not find any
> info on how to extend distutils. Hence, I had a look at how distutils
> is currently implemented, but I'm still not sure how one is meant to
> *properly* extend the "install*" feature set.
I think that any way that works is more or less the proper way.
The distutils are a thing of wonder, but the code isn't the easiest to
understand in the world.
Cheers,
M.
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