On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:09 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Unfortunately, it doesn't run, failing with an ImportError. The > modules are not installed to '/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/...', but only to > '/usr/share/pycentral/gracie/site-packages/gracie/' which isn't on the > system path for Python modules. > > A 'find /' for the modules shows that they *only* exist in that > location. Isn't 'python-central' supposed to automatically put them in > the version-specific locations? I develop and package webcheck [0] (a python application with private modules). I put all stuff in /usr/share/webcheck and use python-support for compiling the stuff there. I ship an /usr/bin/webcheck symlink to /usr/share/webcheck/webcheck.py. This seems to work fine. > > I don't know if setuptools or distutils supports packaging private > > modules. > > Then what is meant by the Python policy speaking of such things? I have only recently had a look at distutils [1] and have the impression that it is only meant for stuff that should end up in the system python path (please correct me if I'm wrong). [0] http://packages.debian.org/webcheck [1] http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/dist/dist.html -- -- arthur - adejong@debian.org - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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