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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools


From: Sebastian Hilbert
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: the benefit of setup tools
Date: 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




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