On 4-jan-05, at 14:42, Bob Ippolito wrote:
On Jan 4, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:
I'd never even heard of .pydistutils.cfg. I've added a note to the FAQ pointing to it.
It has some more features in Python 2.4, you can use it to add new build command packages to distutils out-of-tree (like py2app, bdist_mpkg, etc.). Of course, very few distutils extensions are implemented in away that is compatible with this new feature, but it's there and I'll probably end up making py2app and bdist_mpkg compatible.
Interesting... Although: you only need py2app and bdist_mpkg on the supplier-side (right?), so it doesn't really buy us all that much except a bit of convenience.
Then I looked at the distutils code, and noticed that there's also an optional distutils.cfg inside the package. So that made me wonder: we could install a symlink in /System/yaddayaddayadda/lib/python2.3/distutils/distutils.cfg that points to, say, /Library/Python/2.3/distutils.cfg, and put an (admin-editable) file there that directs scripts tot the right place system wide (/usr/local/bin by default, probably).
+1 on the idea +1 for /usr/local/bin as the "right place"
Not so sure about install-data pointing to /usr/local/share (earlier on in the thread), because some packages might try and locate their data files using means other than distutils (sys.prefix relative).
Yeah, I was wondering about that one too. I'll leave it out, if the end user wants it s/he can edit the file.
Another thing that would be nice is to have some admin-writable place to put header files (in addition to Python's own headers) too. But that would require a patch to distutils and might need to happen in the 2.5 tree.
[EVIL GRIN] What happens if we set both "include_dirs" and "headers" to, say, /Library/Python/2.3/python-includes in distutils.cfg? We'd need a bit of extra glue for PackMan binary installs (so it sends include files there too), but if this would cause include files to be installed there *and* that directory added to the -I flags we'd be all set, I think...
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