For your consideration - the input from the EasyInstall community...
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From: "Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: April 22, 2008 1:47:45 PM MDT
To: Michael Hearne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Distutils] easy_install error
At 12:34 PM 4/22/2008 -0600, Michael Hearne wrote:
I just tried to install the egg for Pyx, and got the error pasted
below. I've contacted the mailing list for that project, and they
seem to be unsure of where they can put shared data for their egg.
Eggs do not have shared data -- they only have runtime-accessible
data, because they're not a distribution format in the way that
system packages are.
However, the problem in this case is that PyX isn't using any of the
standard distutils ways to install these files. If they were using
the standard install_data command, the data would at least be
shipped inside the egg.
If they were using the package_data facility, however (which
available in Python 2.4 and up), they would be able to include the
files inside their package (and thus the egg) and be able to access
them using either __file__-relative paths or the pkg_resources API.
Any of these approaches would work, and unless they need to support
Python 2.3, would probably be easier to use than their current
method of creating a siteconfig.py file. Their setup.py would then
not need to include any custom distutils commands, as it does now.
(And such a change would not require any reliance on setuptools,
either.)
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Michael Hearne
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Synergetics, Inc.
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