On 31/01/10 02:05, Pietro Battiston wrote:
As far as I know, I'm not supposed to decide or even know how users will
install my application...
Unfortunately, all the files are supposed to go to sys.prefix (/usr on
most Linux distros) [1]. I still don't understand why this has been
patched to make it so difficult to understand. As a newbie, I look up
distutils on the net, find the Python documentation, believe that files
will be installed under sys.prefix and find that they are installed
under sys.prefix + '/local'. Little do I know that somewhere in between
somebody has done something that isn't mentioned in the one source I'd
like to believe. It is clearly breaking official Python documentation.
I've read a little about why this has been done (some archives of
Matthias' mails), but all of it went over my head.
Umang
[1]
http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html#installing-additional-files
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