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Re: Distutils questions

 

Thanks TJ!  Sounds good.  I might take a crack at the setup.py file today.
Also, I'll try and commit everything tonight... hopefully.

Thanks,
-Jonathan

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:06 AM, TJ <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 16:01 -0500, Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> > I am really close to having everything completely merged.  The last
> > thing I've been doing is going over the "setup.py" and the use of
> > distutils.  As it is now, when you run "setup.py install", it puts the
> > Python modules under the "site-packages" folder, and all the other
> > files under the /usr/share/openshot folder.  Also, it puts "launcher"
> > in the /usr/bin.
>
> Good point Jonathan. What I should be doing, now I'm almsot a distutils
> expert, is install everything into the relative location (so it goes to
> {site,dist}-packages/).
>
> Then the Debian packaging scripts can shuffle things around to be the
> appropriate places for installation via the package-manager for
> Debian/Ubuntu systems utilising python-support.
>
> Give me a couple of days and I'll redo setup.py and the debian scripts
> to correct that. I'll let you know when its sorted out.
>
>
>

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