[Python-Dev] what to do if you don't want your module in Debian (original) (raw)

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 23:56:06 CEST 2010

On 4/26/10 4:46 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Apr 26, 2010, at 09:39 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

You should be permissive on that one. Until we know how to describe resource files properly, file is what developer use when they need their projects to be portable.. Until then, isn't pkgresources the best practice for this? (I'm pretty sure we've talked about this before.)

I don't think the OP is really speaking against using file per se, but rather putting data into the package however it is accessed. The Linux-packager preferred practice is to install into the appropriate /usr/shared/ subdirectory. Writing portable libraries (with portable setup.py files!) is difficult to do that way, though.

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