Re: [Straw-devel] where to install the straw libs?

[Jan Alonzo]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 22:52, Terje Rosten wrote:
> * Alastair Tse
> | 
> | This leads to another question, why does straw use Makefiles rather
> | than distutils?
> 
> I have a patch to implement this.
> 
> It has some features not present in the current system:
> 
>  * checks for correct Python version
>  * checks for required modules (can be disabled)
>  * gettext tools (xgettext, msgmerge and msgfmt) in pure Python
>  * can specify prefix and sysconfdir (a la configure)
>  * can specify path to gconftool executable
>  * can specify schema file directory
>  * option not to install schema files
>  * build rpm easy
> 
> It needs some clean up and more testing. I will have look into this
> arch thing and try to post a patch later this week.

Cool. I would suggest creating a branch of mainline something like
straw--distutils--0.22 so we can also test it.

I can't speak for Juri though if he wants to switch to distutils. 

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Jan Alonzo <address@hidden>