Packaging of Python Programs (was Re: PISI 0.4 released)

2009-08-19 Thread Michael Pilgermann
Hi all, since I am getting a bit confused about this topic, I thought I start a small discussion on it. Background was our sync app PISI (written in Python), which we now tried to include in distributions (here SHR) using BB files. Martin was kind enough to prepare a first draft of the bb

Re: Packaging of Python Programs (was Re: PISI 0.4 released)

2009-08-19 Thread Adolph J. Vogel
*** Should we really install a Python application as a site-package?? *** Setuptools (and whatever similar stuff is out there for Python packaging) is a very good tool to assemble and distribute Python site-packages (so to say Python libraries) - stuff, that extends Python by some additional