Le lundi 01 octobre 2007 à 23:56 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit :
> > > Hmm. I am hoping that "modify the programs [to add an absolute
> > > path to the search path]" is not a necessary part of this.
> > 
> > If upstream hasn't thought of it, it is. You only need to add one
> > line in the program, before the module is imported.
> 
> How can upstream anticipate the arbitrary path I pass to './setup.py
> install --home="/foo/bar"' if the path "/foo/bar" is up to me as a
> Debian packager? I don't see how any Python program can be written to
> allow for that without modification every time the "/foo/bar" changes.

Distutils may be extended to do such a thing, but most of the software
I've seen doing it is using automake or changing the files with custom
hackery.

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