[Distutils] using bdist_wininst --install-script

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Jan 27 23:04:10 CET 2006


At 05:00 PM 1/27/2006 -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>Sorry, may be I didn't express myself very clearly; I'll try again.
>
>I have a number of 'architecture-independent' files that are used by
>different parts of the framework, such as python modules, C++ libraries
>and applets, etc.
>I can't see any good reason why my C++ code (which doesn't even know
>that there are python modules as part of the same framework) should look
>for its data in some obscure 'site-package' directory. :-)

Ah.  :)  Maybe the best solution then would be to have a way to generate 
C++ and Python (and whatever other language) modules with the data embedded 
in them, then, so that none of them have to worry about locations.  :)



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