[Pythonmac-SIG] Additional Package Manager database for 10.3 now available

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 16 nov 2003, at 22:01, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Nov 16, 2003, at 3:55 PM, Martina Oefelein wrote:
>
>> Second issue: The description of (WriteableBin) says that I should 
>> grant admins write access to 
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin. Am I 
>> the only one who is a bit scared of installing software into /System 
>> or granting anybody write access there? Is it really necessary? This 
>> directory is not even on my path, so why do files have to live there?
>
> You're right to be scared of it, it's bad.  This is a well known 
> problem with distutils on OS X.  The only fix would be for me to 
> rewrite the setup.py for every package in my repository, or to rewrite 
> parts of distutils.

It's not that bad, you could also use 'python setup.py install 
--install-scripts=/usr/local/bin'. This should install scripts into 
/usr/local/bin. The real problem is header-files, even if you could 
install those somewhere else you wouldn't be able to actually use them 
without replacing distutils or the setup.py of packages using the 
headers.

Ronald