Wow if you drill down through that thread it gets crazy confusing....but (this one) <https://discuss.python.org/t/should-there-be-a-new-standard-for-installing-arbitrary-data-files/7853/12> does help a little although (this other one) <https://discuss.python.org/t/modernising-my-packages-am-i-thinking-about-this-all-wrong/14558> got me confused again. Seems like untrodden ground.
That whole forum tagged with Packaging there can sure make your head spin ! On Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 11:55:38 AM UTC-8 Tom Keffer wrote: > installs can only be done within "sys.prefix > <https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.prefix>". You can't just > roam around the file system and install things wherever you like. Hence, > a more unixy setup could not be done with pip, even if we wanted to. > Got it - but we're not installing a python 'module' here. We're installing a pure python 'application' that is massively configurable by the user. How do you do both ? Would it be a multi-step installation ala: - install unconfigured weewx as a library under /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages or the like (raspi example) - and then have a utility therein that writes a customized config to /home/weewx like it does now ? - and how would skins, services, extensions, etc. be installed/uninstalled/enabled/disabled/edited ? Guess I'm lost here for how we'd mechanically do a future installation updating a current very tweaked setup.py installation....or even how would I build one up from scratch. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/c128da8b-3837-4feb-be89-04a8d3dbf35cn%40googlegroups.com.
