Robin Becker wrote: > I was surprised a couple of days ago when trying to assist a colleage with > his python setup on a ubuntu 9.04 system. > > We built our c-extensions and manually copied them into place, but > site-packages wasn't there. It seems that ubuntu now wants stuff to go > into lib/python2.6/dist-packages. > > What is the relation between dist-packages/site-packages if any? Is this > just a name change or is there some other problem being addressed? > > For developers is it best just to create one's own private installations > from the original tarballs?
I don't know much about the atrocities distributions commit to python-installations (ripping out distutils "because it's a developer-only thing", trying to save a few bytes here and there by unifying install-locations between interpreter versions and whatnot), but I think the main problem is that you don't use distutils - or setuptools (that gets often a bad rap even if for most cases it works flawless) If you'd use that to build & install your extension, it would figure out where to place the resulting package (or egg) by itself. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
