At 04:01 PM 11/16/2006 +0100, Berthold Höllmann wrote: >I'll certainly give it a try, but why so much hassle for the person >installing, when the required information is easily avaliable for the >easy_install tool? Hey I read "easy_install" ;-)
Precisely! Your current directory layout and sharing are intended to work around the fact that in the past, installation of Python packages has *not* been easy for you. If you were starting today, you wouldn't *bother* to do such a complex setup as you're doing, because: It would actually be EASIER to just run easy_install ONCE for each machine or Python installation you needed a package installed for! (It would also be simpler, as there would be no NFS, no split prefix/exec-prefix, etc., etc. At most, you could have an NFS cache directory to save on repeated downloads, as I suggested in a previous post.) So the problem isn't that easy_install is hard, the problem is that you're attempting to make it do something that's really not necessary, because you're accustomed to doing it that way. Nonetheless, I have given you instructions to make it work; you just don't like them. :) >This still does not solve the problem with the "#!" or shebang lines >in scripts. There is no problem, as I understand it. Install scripts to the exec_prefix/bin directories, and they will run the appropriate Python. >Especially when installing modules, I think using the full >path to the python executable is wrong. Ah, there's the problem! Just stop thinking that, and all will be fine. ;) >I'm still pleading for a way to customize the string after the "#!" part. If you really want to spend the effort to do that, I suggest you look at zc.buildout, which extensively wraps setuptools and contains its own #! generation. However it will likely be a lot of work for you to do, to satisfy a concern that is purely a matter of taste rather than functional necessity. (Assuming, again, that I actually understand your requirements correctly.) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
