[petsc-dev] [petsc-maint #80119] Re: make install broken on unix?

[Sean Farley]

>
> I disagree with this completely.  There's a tendency to think of everything
> python as a package -- this is NOT a package.  It has no __init__.py, it has
> no __all__, it has no submodules, and it doesn't need any of that.  It
> simply does a one-off task -- it's bits of code to be used in a script.
>  Putting this sort of code in site-packages is what makes site-packages the
> nightmare of ignored dependencies and overlapping versions it is today.
>
> If you want to make it into a package, you're welcome to do so.  With that
> includes registration with the cheeseshop to make sure the namespace is
> unique, placing the single file within a folder that includes an __init__
> (and then likely just gets imported within that __init__), writing a
> setup.py, etc etc.  It's just complete overkill.


Then why put it in bin/python at all? Just drop the .py extension and put it
in bin (with a 'correct' [whatever that may be] python hashbang)?

Sean
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