Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: installation of gnumed

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > [paraphrase]: other big apps put their stuff under 
> > /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages
> Okay, I'm convinced too.
> But we *still* use the GNUMED_DIR hackery to find the gnumed logo, and the 
> documentation:
> we can't put arbitrary data in sys.path, or can/should we?
No way ! I think Hilmar has it right. Mostly generally useful
modules should go there, say python-common/, maybe business/.

> > [paraphrase]: checking package versions
> As a user, nothing ticks me off more than overspecific version testing. 
> Developers demand the latest
> of foo because that's what they use......
I can't be a developer then :-))

> AFAIK:
>       pyPgSQL >= 2.2 (we need PgArray, this is the only one where we are 
> likely to find too-old versions in reality)
I have been thinking about removing the need for PgArray.
However, we still need quite recent versions as they fix bugs.

Karsten
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