I'd say the universally understood Rule #1 goes something like, "Thou shalt
not modify the local installation in any way." Doing so can make things a
pain to debug or keep up to date if you end up changing versions and are
suddenly faced with missing libraries or modules, especially if you've
forgotten which ones were locally installed.
Use a central location as your primary plugin path, and come up with a
logical directory structure to keep things organized. Yes, it will probably
be a little slower to load, but a few extra seconds of startup time is
nothing compared to the time you'll waste messing around with people's local
machines otherwise. In my case, if I need some small platform-independent
additions that I don't want to roll out to the facility (for dev work,
etc.), I'll drop them into a local init/menu combo with a very clear menu
label.
-Nathan
-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastian Elsner
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 9:20 AM
To: Nuke Python discussion
Subject: [Nuke-python] python 3rd party library location
Hi,
I have been wondering how others tackle the problem where to place
python extensions like the mysql driver or sqlalchemy to have them
available inside the nuke python interpreter. Do you place them in
PYTHONPATH or right with the nuke installation? Putting them to the
PYTHONPATH on a fileserver may be slow at importing, but is easy to
maintain. Right in the Python site libs dir seems a bad solution when
installing new bugfix versions. Maybe use a local PYTHONPATH...
Suggestions for best practices welcome!
cheers
Sebastian
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