[MOAB-dev] r3046 - MOAB/trunk/tools/iMesh/python

[Tim Tautges]

I'm Tim Tautges and I support this message.

Thanks for beating on this guys, I think this will make things much 
easier for python newbies like me.

- tim

Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> James Porter wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 12:43 +0200, Jed Brown wrote:
>>> Thanks.  I haven't checked if it's possible to make the current system
>>> do this, but the python stuff is being installed to $PREFIX/lib instead
>>> of $PREFIX/lib/python2.6/site-packages where it belongs (at least by
>>> default, that's how other python packages work).
>> I'm just going to remove the "--install-lib" option for now so that
>> distutils installs the libs to wherever it thinks it should. It reduces
>> somewhat the ability for people to customize their installs via
>> configure, but I'd rather the installation be less customizable as
>> opposed to just plain wrong.
>>
>> Perhaps a better long-term solution would be separate "--FOOdir" options
>> for installing Python, but I'm not sure how that should work yet.
>>
> 
> Perhaps it would be better to do the following?
>   --install-lib=$(libdir)/python$(py_version)/site-packages
> 
> - jason
> 

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