> I develop and package webcheck [0] (a python application with private > modules). I put all stuff in /usr/share/webcheck and use python-support > for compiling the stuff there. I ship an /usr/bin/webcheck symlink > to /usr/share/webcheck/webcheck.py. This seems to work fine.
You can also drop a python script to /usr/bin directly - python doesn;t try to create .pyc files there, even when runnign as root. >>> I don't know if setuptools or distutils supports packaging private >>> modules. >> Then what is meant by the Python policy speaking of such things? > > I have only recently had a look at distutils [1] and have the impression > that it is only meant for stuff that should end up in the system python > path (please correct me if I'm wrong). distutils and setuptools are able to do the same thing, usually you can just exchange them - with the difference that setuptools is broken most of the time imho. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]