On 2009-07-01 01:04, Carl Banks wrote:
On Jun 29, 9:20 am, Javier Collado<javier.coll...@gmail.com> wrote:
I've seen different approaches:
- distutils trick in setup.py to modify the installed script (i.e.
changing a global variable value) so that it has a reference to the
data files location.
One of my biggest complaints about distutils is that it doesn't do
this, a limitation made worse by the fact that distutils allows you to
specify an alternate data file directory, but your scripts have no way
to know what that alternate directory is installed. Which really
limits the usefulness of that functionality.
The most common way I've seen people work around this issue is to
throw their data files into the package directories. Yuck.
Huh. I always found that to be a more elegant solution than hardcoding the data
location into the program at install-time.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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