[Infrastructures] make install only?

[Bennett Todd]

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2005-10-09T17:27:35 Bennett Todd:
> I ended up doing the python setup.py install, then clobbering the
> pyc files, and editing the isconf script to add the isconf lib dir
> to the search path.
>=20
> Python has not impressed me as a language for deliving
> enterprise-quality applications, so far.

Boy did I ever speak too soon. Way too soon. O the embarrassment.

stevegt has done a wonderful lot of deep research on this topic.

There's a "-d" option to compileall.py that lets you control the
string that gets embedded in the pyc file, which is only used in
error messages.

So python's handling of .py/.pyc isn't software packaging hostile at
all.

The apparent weakness of Python's Distutils, stevegt explained to
me, can largely be attributed to their youth; and as Python's now
growing a CPAN-like repository, it can be expected that installer
tooling will get a thorough going-over.

-Bennett

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