Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: windows installer

[David Grant]

Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> GnuMed is not a python package.
>
> Python distutils is intended for installing python packages
> (no ?).
>
>  
>
> > > > When looking at the gnumed prerequisites, I don't see any of them being 
> > > > anywhere except for in site-packages.  So python finds them fine.
> > > >        
> > > The OP was probably also talking about GnuMed "modules" as in,
> > > say .../client/python-common/
> > >      
> > gnumed should find these no problem as long as there are in the path, so 
> > you could do
> >
> > from gnumed.client.python-common import something
> >    
> I am not so sure the GnuMed modules should live in
> site-packages/ (or should they ?).
>
>  
All I know is that all the standalone python applications on my linux 
box are installed to site-packages.  I verified this by doing "locate 
py".  Most of the stuff in my site-packages are just modules.  The two 
standalone apps I could think of were eric3 and boa.  Both of these are 
in /usr/lib/python-2.3/site-packages/eric3 and 
/usr/lib/python-2.3/site-packages/boa respectively, and they have have 
an executable 1-2 line script in /usr/bin

Eric3's is:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/eric3/eric3.py $*

boa's is:
#!/bin/sh
# This is a bit of a kludge, but works.
# If anyone can think of a better way to start Boa, feel free to
# modify.
pv=`python -V 2>&1 | sed -e 's:Python \([0-9].[0-9]\).*:\1:'`
cd /usr/lib/python"${pv}"/site-packages/boa
exec /usr/bin/python Boa.pyc

I envision something similar for gnumed, like having a gnumed client in 
site-packages/gnumed (which is what we now call "client"), a gnumed.py 
file in there, and whatever subdirectories are needed like wxpython, 
business, python-common.  In /usr/bin/ and script should be installed 
called gnumed (or gnumed-client), and that just calls "python 
/usr/lib/2.3/site-packages/gnumed/gnumed.py".

David

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