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

[Terje Rosten]

* Jan Alonzo
| 
| Cool. I would suggest creating a branch of mainline something like
| straw--distutils--0.22 so we can also test it.

After a small fight with arch, I have made a straw--distutils branch
available. It's here:

Name: address@hidden
URL: http://bohr.phys.ntnu.no/~terjeros/arch

Good distutils information: 
 * installing:
  http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/

 * distributing:
  http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/

And of course the distutils source installed in
  /usr/lib/python2.X/distutils

A quick intro to distutils:

 To list useful commands
 $ python setup.py --help-commands

 To update pot file and merge po files
 $ python setup.py translate

 To make a source distribution:
 $ python setup.py sdist

 To list install options use:
 $ python setup.py install --help

 To build rpm:
 $ python setup.py bdist_rpm


The files msgfmt.py and pygettext.py is taken from the Python-2.3
tarball. However, they are lightly patched.

With this patch, gettext tools and make is not needed to install
straw.


 - Terje