Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: windows installer

[David Grant]

Hilmar Berger wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:49:50 +0100
> Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > > > I am not so sure the GnuMed modules should live in
> > > > site-packages/ (or should they ?).
> > > >        
> IMHO no.
>
> Last time I upgraded python2.2 to python2.3 *all* packages in site-packages/ 
> had to be installed again (site-packages is version-specific). IMO installing 
> everything in python/x.x/site-specific is not the way choosen for other 
> languages (did you install all shell scripts in lib/sh ? all perl-programs in 
> share/perl/whatever ? all C-source-code  / binaries under lib/gcc ?). The only 
> way I could think of is that one separates generally useful modules and 
> installs those in python/x.x/site-specific/gnumed . There are a lot of files, 
> however, that should not stored there as they have almost no relationship to 
> python, but only to gnumed  (data files, server-related files, config files, 
> gnumed startup script). These should live somewhere else (i.e. in a place 
> according to linux file system standard).
>
>
>  
2 weeks ago I upgraded to python-2.3 from python-2.2.  Gentoo has a nice 
script called update-python-modules or something.  I ran that and it 
re-"emerged" all my python software so that they get installed to the 
python-2.3 directory and uninstalled from the python-2.2 directory.  
This was about 30 packages.  It was pretty painless.  Using apt-get 
would probably be even faster, but you'd have to type in every package.

Gentoo does nothing unusual in the way it installs python modules.  It 
just uses the installer that the packages use, and they all use 
distutils.  All of the things in site-packages have almost no relation 
to python and only relation to themselves.  I don't pretend to 
understand why they are installed here, but they all are, even python 
modules which aren't normally "imported" like boa and eric3.  The only 
python scripts on my computer which aren't in site-packages are some 
openoffice py scripts which are hidden in the openoffice directory 
somewhere, and my own files, which are in my home directory, (and also 
gnumed-cvs).  It definitely simplifies our code.  gnumed will already be 
in sys.path, no need to fiddle with PATHs or anything like that.  
Simpler, shorter, standardized code is easy to maintain, and easier for 
new developers to grasp.

David