Phillip J. Eby writes: > >what about installing the .egg-info directory without version > >information when --single-version-externally-managed is used? > > Note that the .pyc files will be built for a specific Python version; > that's why the version number is there.
yes, but this shouldn't be necessary if you install into a path which is known to belong to a specific python version (i.e. /usr/lib/python2.4/site-pacakges) > Not including the version number > won't magically make it work with other Python versions. it will work, but the files will be re-compiled again. > >Another unrelated thing: Debian is supposed to ship the source code > >for binaries, but it's not included in the package for cli.exe and > >gui.exe. Could you point me to the source code and/or include it in > >the next release? > > It's included in the source release, along with all the documentation. The > file you're looking for is 'launcher.c'. Of course, the .exe files aren't > used on non-Windows platforms anyway. at least with distutils I was able to build installers for Windows on Linux. I didn't check if that works with setuptools as well. Matthias _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
