Re: [Gnumed-devel] first crack at distutils setup.py

[Ian Haywood]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:22:43AM -0500, David Grant wrote:
> I've added a setup.py and MANIFEST.in file which uses distutils to do 
> two things (which are built-in distutils behaviour):
> 
> 1. Create a tarball for distribution (this is for developers to make 
> releases)
> 2. Install gnumed into a users system, by specifying a prefix like /usr 
> and a root like / or /builds/test/gnumed/image (end users and/or packagers)
> 
> Run:
> python setup.py sdist
> to create the tarball in a directory called dist by default
> 
> You can go into ./dist and try it out:
> tar zxvf Gnumed-0.1.tar.gz
> python setup.py install --prefix /usr --root ./image
This works to install, but it won't run: gnumed can't find the 
modules under 
/lib/python2.3/site-packages, to use this all the gnumed
source files need to change their import commands as you said. 
Volunteers?

Ian

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