On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Krishnakant <hackin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hello all, > I was doing my first complete python packaging for my software and I am > totally confused. > I see, /usr/local/lib/python-2.6/site-packages and also dist-packages. > Then I also see a directory called pyshare, then again site-packages in > usr/lib/python (I am not even remembering correct paths for many such > locations ).
Some of those locations are OS specific - pyshare is specific to debian I think, for example. > > Now my question is, which the perfect place? I would like to know if I > write a distutils based setup.py for my application, then which is the > place which I should choose? I am not sure I understand: your package setup and installation location are totally independent. Once you finish your package, you can install it wherever you want, using the --prefix option of the distutils install command. You should avoid using /usr as an installation prefix, because it is generally assumed to be owned by the system. /usr/local is not, though. David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
