[Python-Dev] what to do if you don't want your module in Debian

[Piotr Ożarowski]

[Tarek Ziadé, 2010-04-26]
> Great hints, I'll try to follow them... and they could make a good
> section in the Hitchhiker's guide to packaging ;)

How about these two:
http://us.pycon.org/media/2010/talkdata/PyCon2010/038/paper.html
http://wiki.debian.org/GettingPackaged

> [...]
> > * ignore FHS (you're using Windows after all); use __file__ whenever
> >  you can,
> 
> You should be permissive on that one. Until we know how to describe
> resource files properly,
> __file__ is what developer use when they need their projects to be portable..
> 
> Notice that we have started to work on fixing this -
> http://hg.python.org/distutils2/file/tip/docs/design/wiki.rst

if there's no other way (--install-data is ignored right now, and I know
you're doing a great work to change that, thanks BTW), one could always
use it in *one* place and later import the result in other parts of
the code (instead of using __file__ again)
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