Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> The packaged installations like RPM and *BSD ports get around this
>> by installing the TMDA modules directly into Python's sys.path
>> (e.g, /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/TMDA/).
>
>     why does TMDA itself not do it this way?

Because upgrading/downgrading Python would break the TMDA
installation. Python provides a system called `distutils' that manages
the installation of custom modules, but unfortunately it provides no
way to un-install, and has no concept of dependencies.

I'm not sure what the problem is, as the current installation methods
seem fine to me.

If your OS supports a TMDA package/port/RPM (which covers most users)
you are fine. If not, just unpack the TMDA tarball into a src
directory, and symlink the bin/tmda-* programs into /usr/bin or
/usr/local/bin.
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