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Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > > > > [...] 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. I'm confused, then. How does this fit with the implication (in the above quoted teset) that upstream should have "thought of [changing the location of the modules]"? If downstream hackery is required, I don't see what upstream is expected to have done. -- \ "The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of | `\ the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- Howard | _o__) Philips Lovecraft | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
