[Spambayes] Re: tbird and spambayes not playing well together.

[sean]

Tony Meyer wrote:
> [Sean Darcy]
> 
>>Now I wonder if the problem is that setup.py install is only 
>>installing dibbler.py in site packages. See below. Is this 
>>because it thinks ( knows? ) all the rest are already installed and 
>>dibbler.py is the only one changed ( from last night's cvs ) ?
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what distutils uses to see if files need replacing or not, but
> that was presumably the reason.  Instead of deleting the directory, you
> could have also (IIRC) used --force or -f in the command-line to force
> replacement.
> 

I'll remember that.

> [later]
> 
>>On a related topic. This is an amd64 running fedora core 3 
>>x86_64. I have /usr/lib for legacy 32bit apps and /usr/lib64 
>>for 64 bit apps.  I've built and installed python as a 64 bit 
>>app. There is no /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages - at 
>>least until spambayes creates it.
>>
>>Now sb works installed in /usr/lib - but it's in the Wrong Place.
> 
> 
> This might get better answered either with a different subject or on
> comp.lang.python.  I don't know enough about *nix installs of Python to know
> what it normally does with libraries in this case.  You can run setup.py
> with --install-lib=/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages (or is it
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/spambayes?) to get it to install the

Aha. I only come to this list when I have a problem. I ought to come more often.
> package there if you like.  I don't know whether your Python is setup to
> look there by default or not.  (There's a similar arg for changing where the
> scripts end up).
> 

Thanks. I really appreciate all the work you do on sb.

sean