[Pythonmac-SIG] pychecker

Robert Kern rkern at ucsd.edu
Tue Jan 4 05:58:04 CET 2005


Bob Ippolito wrote:

> Do this instead:
> 
> # Begin File
> [install]
> install-scripts=/usr/local/bin
> install-data=/usr/local/share
> # End File
> 
> Screwing with purelib and platlib is a terrible idea if you ever have 
> multiple versions of Python installed, because they will all use the 
> same .pydistutils.cfg.  The standard Python 2.3.0 already puts its 
> purelib and platlib there anyway (indirectly via symlink, but it still 
> goes there), so it's not ever going to actually do anything helpful.

Okay. At some point, that symlink got blown away on my machine, so I put 
in the install-*lib entries. <fixing up the symlink now>

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
  Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
   -- Richard Harter


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