Bob Tanner writes:
> > If there is no way to install the package directly into site-packages
> > using the provided setup.py, I think setup.py should be
> > modified/ignored.
>
> Won't this mean a total re-write of cdbs since it specifically looks for
> setup.py?
yes, if cdbs doesn't allow that.
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 12:15 am, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> I don't think Debian should use the egg structure. It apparently relies
> on building a long sys.path (even though through only a single .pth
> file);
I'm not sure of how .eggs are implemented, but I'm going to cross-post this
info t
> If there is no way to install the package directly into site-packages
> using the provided setup.py, I think setup.py should be
> modified/ignored.
Won't this mean a total re-write of cdbs since it specifically looks for
setup.py?
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Bob Tanner wrote:
Note also that in many cases, the package will be a single .egg *file*,
(analagous to a Java .jar file) rather than a directory, and files are
preferable to directories in most cases as they make Python import
processing faster.
I don't think Debian should use the egg struct
On Monday 21 November 2005 05:16 pm, you wrote:
> > Is Debian python policy dated or wrong?
> >
> > Debian moving a different direction then upstream python?
>
> surely our policy needs to adopt the new schema. I don't think it's
> dated or wrong. there are things which we do want to prevent:
>
> -
Bob Tanner writes:
> >I'm working around the "problem" by installing a formencode.pth pointing to
> >the /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/FormEncode-0.4-py2.4.egg directory.
>
> This isn't a "problem", it's just that the Debian policy isn't
> up-to-date. Python eggs install this way, and many pa
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Matthias Urlichs wrote:
>> > ??? Please don't do that in a Debian package.
>>
>> First question, why?
>>
> Because you can't us it with a simple "use formencode".
> "pydoc" doesn't work with eggs either.
>
Cross-posting from the python-distutils-d
Matthias Urlichs wrote:
>> If it break Debian policies, please point me to the appropriate
>> section(s) and documents. I wasn't able to find any related to python
>> module packaging.
>>
> zless /usr/share/doc/python/python-policy.txt.gz
I put a zip_safe = False into the setup.py, the prevents
Hi,
Bob Tanner:
> On Monday 21 November 2005 09:09 am, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > $ dpkg -L python2.4-formencode
> > [...]
> > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/FormEncode-0.4-py2.4.egg
> > /usr/share/doc/python2.4-formencode/copyright
> > /usr/share/doc/python2.4-formencode/changelog.Debian.gz
>
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