But.... I thought of this later.
I'm having to write something that will also run on Windows. I probably
need some windows-using python people (who knit!) to make that part work
OK. But how would you suggest doing it on Windows?
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>
> Deirdre Saoirse writes:
> > /usr/local/lib/app-name wouldn't be a *bad* place.
> >
> > OTOH, I can make a case for /usr/local/bin/app-name too. At least the
> > modules for starting a given app should be there.
>
> But not a good one. Modules are *support*, not directly
> executable. Using a symlink from ${prefix}/bin/<name> to the script
> ${prefix}/lib/<application>/<script.py> allows Python to generate the
> right sys.path so that modules and application-specific packages
> placed in ${prefix}/lib/<application>/ are properly found.
> If an application uses other directories of
> ${prefix}/lib/<application>/ to store data files, all modules and
> scripts should probably be pushed to a subdirectory instead.
>
>
> -Fred
>
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