[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:34:02PM -0600, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Oleg>    ~/.python
>     Oleg>    ~/.python/bin
>     Oleg>    ~/.python/lib
>     Oleg>    ~/.python/lib/python2.5
> 
> The drawback of this approach is that it implies that Perl, Tcl, IPython,
> etc. belong in their own .whatever directory.

   How many users install (parts of) all of these into their homes?

> The IT folks here at work do
> things that way (though not in home directories).  If I want to build a
> package which relies on zlib, libpng, libtiff, libjpeg, etc., imagine what
> my CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS and LDFLAGS arguments look like.  :barf:

   Why not use GNU stow?

Oleg.
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