#146 setup.py (distutils) installation does not work (attached patch)

[Christian Felder]

Hello,

the site-package installation does not work.
genx.py will be installed for example to /usr/local/bin and the genx will be installed in the site-package directory, e.g. /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/genx/

genx.py imports version.py and model.py which is ok if you run the software from checkout.
Otherwise this leads to an ImportError because version.py and model.py resides in the site-package.

To make matters worse you cannot import the genx site-package from genx.py (naming convention) directly.

The attached patch imports version.py and model.py from genx site-package on ImportError exception.
This fixes this error.

Nevertheless it would be nice to rename genx.py to something different from the site-package name and to restructure the project that you do not need to distinguish between imports in the checkout version and imports in a installed package version.

Best
Christian

[Matts Björck]

Thanks for the report. I will change the directory structure to avoid this. Will attempt to implement it in the next release.

Best Regards
Matts

[Artur Glavic]

Will be resolved in future release.