Kenneth Hoste writes:
> [ You wrote: ]
> >> [...]. The 'subdirectory' part probably corresponds to the
> >> 'start_dir' easyconfig parameter?
[ I wrote: ]
> > I'll look into that as an option! What I ended up doing was ceating a
> > separate module for "datacat", and installing it as Python-only by copying
> > the needed subdirectory. Then I could specify it as an ordinary
> > dependence instead of exts_list.
>
> That also works of course. :)
>
> Whether that's the preferred option depends on whether it makes sense to
> provide "datacat" as a separate installation (whether or not it's useful
> by itself).
It's not, really. The whole "datacat" repository provides both the
server-side and client (Python) utilities to communicate with an SQL
database at SLAC, which we use to track our experiment's data files. We
only need the client stuff, but the folks who developed it kept both in the
one repository.
Thank you again for your help and advice!
-- Mike
