Re: [Gnumed-devel] Installation

[David Grant]

Ian Haywood wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:53:39 -0500
> David Grant <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>
> > no one has yet 
> > explained to my fully why distutils cannot be used for the server and 
> > client.
> >    
>
> The reason why gnumed installation is so crazy is all the dependencies.
> Looking at the distutils docs, it doesn't do anything for dependencies, and 
> it's designed
> for library modules (like wxPython) not end-user apps like GNUMed.
>
> For Gentoo, (and BSD) all we need is a tarball with an install.sh script that 
> copies
> everything into place and runs py_compile. IMHO this is easier than trying to 
> bend
> distutils to our purposes.
>  
Gentoo and Debian handle dependancies.  Distutils is not meant for 
handling dependancies anyways.
RPM distributions generally don't (as least not nicely), unless you have 
apt-rpm or urpmi.


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