Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: windows installer

[David Grant]

Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > 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.
> >    
>
> I do think it makes sense to place the Python parts of the
> GnuMed Python client in site-packages.
>
> Andreas, what is Debian's position on that ?
>
>  
From some conversation with some debian people on python-dev mailing list:

Fred L. Drake, Jr. said:
> / Oh yeah, another thing I vaguely recall from the pre-Distutils-0.1 era:
/>/ Guido doesn't (didn't?) like site-python and wanted to deprecate it.
/>/ Perhaps the above paragraph explains why.
/
Guido van Rossum said:
Indeed, /usr/local/lib/python<major>.<minor>/site-packages/ is where
site packages should go.

site-python that he's referring to was in /usr/lib/site-python I think.  It has 
to do with byte-code compilation or something...  which can be different for 
each version of python.


Andreas, I'm not sure why your packages install some stuff 
(client/wxpython) to /usr/share/ and other stuff (client/business) to 
/usr/lib/python-2.3/site-packages.  Even worse, the python-common stuff 
goes into the a parent dir of the wxpython stuff, so the directory 
structure is changed.  That won't work for using python packages.

I think putting any *.py files anywhere other than site-packages might 
cause lintian errors.  
http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tthird-party-package-in-python-dir.html 
which won't help the packages get into debian stable.

David