Re: [Straw-devel] where to install the straw libs?

[Terje Rosten]

* Alastair Tse
| 
| This leads to another question, why does straw use Makefiles rather
| than distutils?

I have a patch to implement this.

It has some features not present in the current system:

 * checks for correct Python version
 * checks for required modules (can be disabled)
 * gettext tools (xgettext, msgmerge and msgfmt) in pure Python
 * can specify prefix and sysconfdir (a la configure)
 * can specify path to gconftool executable
 * can specify schema file directory
 * option not to install schema files
 * build rpm easy

It needs some clean up and more testing. I will have look into this
arch thing and try to post a patch later this week.


 - Terje