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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools
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Sebastian Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools |
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Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:56:03 +0200 |
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Am Sonntag 06 September 2009 21:48:52 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:57:40AM +0200, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > Is there any benefit to make GNUmed install via python setup.py build /
> > install ?
>
> I think I rememeber that several Debian maintainers are not really happy
> about setup.py driven installs and I also had problems with ons such
> project. If it makes more work for you as upstream I do not think you
> should spend a lot of time into it.
>
> > Or do the setuptools for python of each distro know where to put the
> > files for each distro.
>
> I think so.
>
> > Is setuptools on Debian aware of python-support while this
> > package does not exist on openSUSE ?
>
> I have no idea whether it makes sense to port python-support to openSUSE
> nor whether somebody will actually do the work. I think it is a quite
> good thing to have in a distribution.
>
> > What are the pros and cons ?
>
> No real cons because in most cases you can just simply ignore setup.py
> but there are no real pros IMHO and you can spend your time into more
> important stuff probably.
>
Thank god you said that. I recently had a private discussion with someone not
involved in GNUmed anymore who told me that it is virtually essential to
convert to setup.py
Sebastian
- [Gnumed-devel] the benefit of setup tools, Sebastian Hilbert, 2009/09/06
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools, Andreas Tille, 2009/09/06
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools,
Sebastian Hilbert <=
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools, Gour, 2009/09/07
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools, Sebastian Hilbert, 2009/09/07
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools, Karsten Hilbert, 2009/09/07
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools, Gour, 2009/09/07
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools, Karsten Hilbert, 2009/09/07
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools, Gour, 2009/09/08
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: Re: the benefit of setup tools, Andreas Tille, 2009/09/08
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools, Gour, 2009/09/08
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools, Andreas Tille, 2009/09/08
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools, Gour, 2009/09/09