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From: Stefan Schweizer <genstef@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo dev]suggestion to distutils eclass
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:36:23
Message-Id: e9e0lj$t9a$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo dev]suggestion to distutils eclass by Zhang Le
1 Zhang Le wrote:
2
3 > Some packages don't provide standard "setup.py".
4 > Take a look at the attachment.
5 > This is a new ebuld.
6 >
7 > So my suggestion is to add a new variable to distutils.eclass, e.g.
8 > SETUP.PY, if it's set, then use it, otherwise let it defaults to
9 > "setup.py".
10
11 what about making a simple symlink then? This will avoid more code in a
12 general eclass for only very few cases.
13
14 You can also report this upstream and get them to rename the setup script.
15
16 Best regards,
17 Stefan
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