set default installation prefix in setup.py
Bug #596241 reported by
Didier Roche-Tolomelli
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quickly |
Triaged
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
My python application has a setup file generated with quickly.
when I run setup.py with no arguments for installation prefix, It installs the app in /usr/local, but update_
But when I set the installation path using --prefix option, the app will be installed correctly.
Is there any way to set a default installation prefix in the setup.py file, so that InstallAndUpdat
Thanks in advance.
| Changed in quickly: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| Umang Varma (umang) wrote | #1 |
To post a comment you must log in.
I'm not very sure of how python-
The installation root in Ubuntu/Debian by default is /usr/local. However, it is supposed to be sys.prefix (which is most probably /usr/ on your computer). I'm going to put a small note on the Debian wiki about this.
http://
Now I really don't know a good way to deal with this. Hardcoding /usr/local would not be nice, because it may not affect other distros. Furthermore, when building a Debian package distutils is called with the --instal-layout=deb option. This means that data files will actually be installed into /usr/share/foo.
What I've done once is to have a list of places the data file can be found - sys.prefix, /usr/local and local directory (if run from inside the DVCS branch). A nice function somewhere inside the template would be nice so that projects call easily call this function and retrieve this list. (Maybe the developer can add the local directory manually, if the directory structure inside /usr/share/foo and and the local directory vary.
What I'm calling local directory would be `quickly_