On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 09:54:37AM -0700, David Grant wrote: > I think you hit the nail on the head on all points except that I > thought distutils could install files to other locations as well like > /usr/share/doc/<packagename> and /usr/share/<packagename>. You might > be right, maybe distutils can't. In which case a gentoo ebuild calls > 'python setup.py install' and then installs docs and images, etc.. > manually. In that case, the ebuild doesn't become much simpler... > which would explain why many large python applications don't use > distutils as well... which is fine too.. That's why I thought they weren't suitable for our purpose.
> Yes, that's right. Often gentoo ebuild writers will just change the > version number of the ebuild filename (a version bump) and see if it > works. If it doesn't then they look to see what changed... Oh, I'd say that's a valid first-try approach ! Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
