On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:49 AM, David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Once a package is installed on a system... is there any way to find out > where it was installed to?
Not at the moment. PEP 376 though, proposes a new API to be able to reach the metadata of an installed package, browsing the directories from the PATH (that's how setuptools does) > > I am looking for both metadata and a directory name/path. > > In my Package Manager GUI, I want to be able to "reveal" all the > hidden "goodies" that seem to dissapear into the subsystem. > > Either "Documentation" or "Demos" > > Here is an example.... > > C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32\Demos > > or > > C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\HTML > > Under Linux, it would be just as valuable. If not more. There's no explicit way at distutils level to point things like documentation, maybe that could be a metadata. Maybe you can propose this, by commenting ths page : http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Metadata Regards TArek > > Regards > > David > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
