[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57 (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Tue Jan 15 21:45:11 CET 2008


On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:34:02PM -0600, skip at pobox.com wrote:

Oleg> ~/.python Oleg> ~/.python/bin Oleg> ~/.python/lib Oleg> ~/.python/lib/python2.5

The drawback of this approach is that it implies that Perl, Tcl, IPython, etc. belong in their own .whatever directory.

How many users install (parts of) all of these into their homes?

The IT folks here at work do things that way (though not in home directories). If I want to build a package which relies on zlib, libpng, libtiff, libjpeg, etc., imagine what my CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS and LDFLAGS arguments look like. :barf:

Why not use GNU stow?

Oleg.

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