Floris Bruynooghe writes:
> [dist-packages] is a pretty neat solution to the problem.
To what problem? I admit I am no expert on Python packaging, but my
experience with XEmacs suggests that this is the distro trying to help
with a *set* of problems that the user/sysadmins really should be
hand
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:34:30AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Python 2.6 has two standard places for installing packages:
>
> 1. In the stdlib site-packages/ subdir
>
> 2. In the user home dir's .local/lib/python2.6/site-packages dir
And is missing a 3rd one. The sysadmin who wants to instal
Hi Floris,
That's exactly how I see it and i totally agree.
My contribution is to make a Package Manager Gui that tries to be
supportive of what you describe so well.
If i have any complaint about the state of affairs it would only be that
it takes a newcomer such a long time (months) to fully u
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:08:26PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:22 PM, M.-A. Lemburg 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 ?
David Lyon wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:22:56 +0200, "M.-A. Lemburg" 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
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:22 PM, M.-A. Lemburg 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 ?
I think I'm a little confused, too, because Python supports the
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James Y Knight wrote:
>
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 4:49 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>> Debian has a long history of doing this different, so it's
>> not much of a surprise. They also apply such changes to
>> Python packages.
>>
>> However, all of this is non-standard and will cause problems
>> with too
On Jul 22, 2009, at 4:49 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Debian has a long history of doing this different, so it's
not much of a surprise. They also apply such changes to
Python packages.
However, all of this is non-standard and will cause problems
with tools that rely on the standard site-packages/
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
> You missed my point: I know that sys.prefix etc. is set based on the
> location of the executable. You were complaining that setuptools /
> distutils wants to put files in an "OS-controlled directory": I was
> asking how Python was supposed
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David Lyon wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:41:41 -0400, Tres Seaver
> wrote:
>> Consider the case where the user has built a separate python (e.g., to
>> avoid conflicting with the OS version) in /opt/PythonX.y: are you
>> actually saying that distu
James Y Knight wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:38 PM, David Lyon wrote:
>> When I go into python on ubuntu I see there is /usr/local/pythonX.X/lib/
>> site-packages and I'm wondering why the hubba setuptools/distutils
>> doesn't put packages there by default. That would solve a lot of
>> problems.
>
On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:38 PM, David Lyon wrote:
When I go into python on ubuntu I see there is /usr/local/pythonX.X/
lib/
site-packages and I'm wondering why the hubba setuptools/distutils
doesn't put packages there by default. That would solve a lot of
problems.
Just leave /usr/lib/pythonX.X//l
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John Szakmeister wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM, David Lyon wrote:
> [snip]
>> The main problem imho has been that easy_install by default
>> has installed to /usr/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages when in
>> fact that really is an operating system
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM, David Lyon wrote:
[snip]
> The main problem imho has been that easy_install by default
> has installed to /usr/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages when in
> fact that really is an operating system controlled directory.
>
> So naughty naughty to setuptools
I've witnesse
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