On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Simon King <simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote:
>
> Hi William!
>
> On 22 Aug., 12:25, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > No, use the SAGE_DATA variable, which is defined in misc/misc.py:
>
> Thank you, I didn't know about that one.
> Is it for data that concern the whole Sage installation, or is it
> specific to a single user (like DOT_SAGE)?
It is data that is global to the whole SAGE install.
>
>
> In the former case, probably it would also be the right place for my
> group cohomology data base (that I currently put into SAGE_LOCAL/
> pGroupCohomology/), wouldn't it?
Yes, definitely.
> But how can one tell setup.py that it is supposed to use SAGE_DATA?
>
> 'cause, if one has
>
> setup(
> name = "packagename",
> ...
> data_files=[("Folder",
> ["File1",
> "File2"]),
> ("Folder/Subfolder", [...]),
> ...
> )
>
> then the data files seem to be copied to SAGE_ROOT/local/Folder and
> SAGE_ROOT/local/Folder/Subfolder, if I'm not mistaken. Note, in
> particular, that they all go into SAGE_LOCAL, not SAGE_DATA
>
I don't know any way to do what you want using setup.py.
William
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