Re: Installing platform-independent resources outside the Python package

2013-09-09 Thread Ben Finney
Jakub Wilk writes: > * Ben Finney , 2013-09-09, 13:36: > > * Use ‘.links’ to make a symlink for each package to > > ‘usr/share//foofile’ at > > ‘usr/lib/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/dist-packages/${DISTRIBUTION_NAME}/foofile’. > > How can you do that without hardcoding Python version? By relying on t

Re: Installing platform-independent resources outside the Python package (was: Specifying ‘--install-data’ for each binary package)

2013-09-09 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Jakub Wilk, 2013-09-09] > * Ben Finney , 2013-09-09, 13:36: > >* Use ‘.links’ to make a symlink for each package to > >‘usr/share//foofile’ at > >‘usr/lib/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/dist-packages/${DISTRIBUTION_NAME}/foofile’. > > How can you do that without hardcoding Python version? should I add

Re: Installing platform-independent resources outside the Python package (was: Specifying ‘--install-data’ for each binary package)

2013-09-09 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ben Finney , 2013-09-09, 13:36: * Use ‘.links’ to make a symlink for each package to ‘usr/share//foofile’ at ‘usr/lib/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/dist-packages/${DISTRIBUTION_NAME}/foofile’. How can you do that without hardcoding Python version? -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Installing platform-independent resources outside the Python package (was: Specifying ‘--install-data’ for each binary package)

2013-09-08 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > In that case, I currently have no good solution. I had hoped to use > some Python standard-library resource access function to find the > files wherever they are installed. I have hacked a work-around: * Patch the ‘MANIFEST.in’ and ‘setup.py’ to omit all mention of the re