[Pyode-user] Debian packaging available for PyODE

[Josh T. <jo...@ps...>]

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Hello,

I've created Debian packages for PyODE 1.1.0; you can find them at
<http://psas.pdx.edu/~josh/pyode>.  (Not apt-gettable, as that isn't a
permanent repository.)  These packages are built against latest Debian
unstable, and include packages for both python 2.3 and 2.4.

In order to build with GCC 4.0, I remove the pre-generated pyrex output
files and force setup.py to rebuild them, as Debian's pyrex packages
include a patch to fix the generated code so GCC 4.0 can compile it.
You might want to generate the release tarballs with a similarly patched
pyrex, to fix this issue for other users.  It would also be helpful to
have an option for setup.py to always rebuild the output files.

I also had to patch the paths in setup.py, since looking in "../ode" for
ODE source will not work.  On Debian at least, the include files are in
/usr/include, the libraries are in /usr/lib, and the user-settings file
is available at /usr/include/ode/config/user-settings, so I changed
ODE_BASE to "/usr", and changed the file location to
os.path.join(ODE_BASE, "include", "ode", "config", "user-settings").  It
would be helpful if the default ODE_BASE was "/usr" on non-Windows
systems, since those systems would usually want to use a system-wide
ODE.  I don't know whether the user-settings path will work on all
systems; in particular, the path will differ if grabbing it out of an
ODE source directory.  Some possible solutions for that would be to move
the path to the user-settings file into the system-specific section (if
it is the same on all non-Windows systems) or trying several different
paths (ODE_BASE/include/ode/config/user-settings,
ODE_BASE/config/user-settings, etc) and using the first working path.

Thank you for PyODE.  I hope you find these packages useful.

- Josh Triplett