Re: [PyX-devel] Problems with lfs files when installed to non-standard location

[Andre W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi,

On 20.04.04, Joerg Lehmann wrote:
> On 20.04.04, Andre Wobst wrote:
> > I've patched setup.py
> > accordingly and introduced a siteconfig.py (which is temporarily
> > overwritten during install). 
> 
> Nice, although it's not clear why we do not only create the
> siteconfig.py file temporarily. In other words: why is there a
> siteconfig.py in the distribution, if it's just ignored by the
> installer.

First I thought (as well), that we would need that for our CVS
developer version only. But you may download the distribution and use
PyX without any install (you may add the PyX base directory to the
PYTHONPATH or just run python in the base directory). Then you want
our developer behaviour as well (otherwise we could just skip the
distribution of siteconfig.py). I think it's fine -- its just an
additional feature, that we can run PyX without any setup. Of course,
we could do that path adjustment outside of siteconfig.py as well
instead of replacing siteconfig.py. It would blow up the code, where
we access the siteconfig, and thats actually worse to my eyes.

Another issue is, that the lfs lives in a different directory than
other shared material (pyx.def, textboxes.tex in the future -- which
are distributed in contrib). Currently I've just left everything as it
is. I'm not sure whether its worth any thoughts at all. In principal,
the shared data material is different from other things we might
distribute in contrib in the future (like a dvips.py).

> +1 on including the pyxrc path in the siteconfig.py file

What do you think about adding a flag to setup.cfg, where we enable
the global pyxrc (this includes copying the pyxrc to the appropriate
position) and denote the path of the global configuration in
siteconfig.py (otherwise we could set this variable in siteconfig.py
to None). I don't know whether its a good idea to make a global pyxrc
an install option (I've never seen such a behaviour before). On the
other hand we do not (yet) install the global pyxrc at all. This
contradicts setting up the path of the global pyxrc during the
install. Or should we switch to always install the global pyxrc?


André

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