Re: [Gramps-devel] multiple gramps versions installed

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Aaron R. Short <fuz...@ya...>wrote:

> well after replying I did a few quick googles to check on how appropriate
> site-packages was for applications...
> I couldn't find anything that directly weighed in on it but from what I
> could glean it did appear that site-packages is intended for libraries. ie
> code that would be reused by more than one other application. Not
> necessarily end applications themselves. but I could be reading the
> terminology wrong. It's my understanding that an application doesn't
> necessarily have to be a package but perhaps python docs interchange them a
> little loosly.
> I also noticed that multiple times comments were made to not use setuptools
> and that it just introduces it's own headaches. This was repeated in
> multiple comments on multiple articles. I haven't used setuptools myself
> it's just what I read.
> -- AaronS
>


Aaron,

You are right, but we are also thinking about the library parts of GRAMPS.
There may be parts that could be shared, especially after we get a nice
separation between backend and frontend. In any event, this will come later,
if it comes at all.

-Doug


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> *From:* Aaron R. Short <fuz...@ya...>
> *To:* gramps devel <gra...@li...>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 24, 2009 9:45:42 AM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Gramps-devel] multiple gramps versions installed
>
> hmm. well still doesn't seem right to me but what do I know. wxglade i'm
> noticing is a dev tool. is site-packages really a standard install dir for
> user apps? Perhaps wxglade installs there because it might also be used as a
> libary and imported into different python apps?
>
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> *From:* Benny Malengier <ben...@gm...>
> *To:* Aaron R. Short <fuz...@ya...>
> *Cc:* gramps devel <gra...@li...>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 24, 2009 2:54:05 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Gramps-devel] multiple gramps versions installed
>
>
>
> 2009/4/14 Aaron R. Short <fuz...@ya...>
>
>> That sounds funny. gramps is an app not a library. Though I'm new to
>> python it seemed that site-packages was for libraries. I don't know how it
>> works on linux / python but windows doesn't normally put apps in a compilers
>> directory tree.
>>
>
> Python does, eg:
>
>  python /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wxglade/wxglade.py
>
> starts the wxglade app.
>
> Benny
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