Re: [pygccxml-development] Installing from cvs doesn't work

[Matthias B. <ba...@ir...>]

Roman Yakovenko wrote:
> May be. I don't think/expect user/programmer to run
> setup_pyplusplus.py directly.
> I think he should run release_manager/release_builder.py and then to
> run setup.py
> from pyplusplusXXX directory.
> 
> Is this wrong approach?

Well, in my opinion it is. ;) The main reason is that it is 
non-standard. The standard way of dealing with an extension package is 
by using the distutils. This includes not only building and installing 
the package but also creating a source or binary distribution (see the 
"sdist" and "bdist_*" commands (setup.py --help-commands)).
Some other reasons are that it takes much longer and is inconvenient 
when I just want to update the sources and apply those updates.

- Matthias -