Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:45 AM, David Cournapeau > <da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: > >> It is a solved problem: autoconf does it well, and has all the required >> features, >> > > So does it mean that having Distutils generate some kind of > "configure.in" template that could > be used by autoconf could be the right approach ? >
I meant that instead of installing almost everything indistinctly like we do now with distutils/setuptools, we should have something like: python setup.py install --bindir=foodir --sbindir=bardir --mandir=mandir .... E.g. just copying the categories from autoconf (the ones which make sense for python packages). So making a FHS-compliant or something like currently done is the responsibility of the packagers - assuming the directories are correctly set by the developer in the setup.py. The main problem is how to retrieve the different files when it is needed in the package - I would guess pkg_resources would need to be modified as well for that purpose, cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
