The best way to package a Python module?

[js]

Thanks everyone for details.
I'll try stealing some of the good bits of python-central of debian
for my purpose.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Ben Finney
<bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> writes:
>
>> >What has changed is that the tools in common use for Debian
>> >packaging of Python libraries have taken on the role of generating
>> >those per-version copies at install time.
>>
>> exarkun at boson:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/python2.{4,5}/site-packages/sqlite/main.py
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 63 2007-12-27 15:29 /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlite/main.py -> /usr/share/pycentral/python-sqlite/site-packages/sqlite/main.py
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 63 2007-12-27 15:29 /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sqlite/main.py -> /usr/share/pycentral/python-sqlite/site-packages/sqlite/main.py
>> exarkun at boson:~$
>>
>> That doesn't seem to agree with your statement.  Am I missing something?
>
> You are missing an inspection of the contents of the actual package
> file. The package file itself contains only a single copy of the
> Python module (at /usr/share/pycentral/site-packages/sqlite/main.py).
>
> What you see there on your filesystem was created at install time; the
> installation tool figures out, at install time, which Python versions
> need to be supported on this particular system, and creates those
> symlinks.
>
> Thus, the change that's occurred is that the user doesn't need to
> choose between "Python SQLite library for Python 2.4" and "Python
> SQLite library for Python 2.5".
>
> There is no longer a separation at the package level by Python
> version, so the user merely needs to choose (given your example) the
> single "Python SQLite library", and the install process takes care of
> setting it up for all supported versions of Python on the system.
>
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