On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:22:56 +0200, "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > Maybe I've misunderstood some important detail, but how will > their "change" help with anything other than making their > distribution a non-standard Python installation ?
The Debian/ubuntu distribution isn't non-standard. If anything I'd prefer to suggest that it is in many ways "a standard" Here's a sys.pth from a mac... ['', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python26.zip', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/plat-darwin', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/plat-mac', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/Users/david/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages'] You can see that there are many choices along sys.path for installing packages. > distutils allows for a great deal of flexibility. For some > reason, this does not appear to be known to a larger > audience. People forget command lines - that's why. > I can only recommend reading Greg's great write-up about the > end-user perspective of installing Python modules: > > http://docs.python.org/install/ It's good documentation of course. Cheers to Greg but the old method is so tedious. That really is the hard way. pythonpkgmgr offers a much easier solution by wrapping easy_install and/or pip. You just type in parts of the package name into a search box, click [search], a search of pypi is done, click [install] and your package is downloaded and installed. It's a much more modern way of doing package installation and requires absolutely no typing on a command line. > A little known fact is that distutils can easily be customized > using config files: > > http://docs.python.org/install/#distutils-configuration-files Perphaps. But it seems only for advanced users.. and I couldn't figure out on the face of it what advantage it would have. Take care David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
