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Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for console scripts and introspection

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On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 09:06:01PM +1200, Robert Collins wrote:

> > Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> 
> >   According to Robert's earlier message, that means the Distutils
> >   metadata file needs to be not in the application's private directory,
> >   but in a directory on the Python module search path. That seems odd to
> >   me, since this is not amodule import being done.
> 
> So this is perhaps the disconnect: I did not say the metadata should
> move: it should be in the private directory - it has to be adjacent to
> the packages/modules its describing, since if it is present but the
> package/module is not that is at the very best confusing for tools
> like pip.
> 
> That private directory must be on the python search path

Maybe I'm a bit dense but isn't that what OP very much
DOESN'T want to _happen_ ?

Are you, by implication, saying that that's not _possible_ ?

> when running the application (or the modules can't be imported).

That reason doesn't hold -- the application can be written to
(or told to) "know" where to look and manipulate sys.path
accordingly (regardless of whether that's considered a good
idea or not).

Karsten
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Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for console scripts and introspection Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-01 05:00 +0200
  Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for  console scripts and introspection Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-09-01 06:50 +0200
    Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for console scripts and introspection Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-01 07:40 +0200
      Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for  console scripts and introspection Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-09-01 09:40 +0200
  Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for console scripts and introspection Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-01 08:10 +0200
    Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for  console scripts and introspection Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2015-09-01 12:20 +0200
  Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for console scripts and introspection Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-02 10:40 +0200
    Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for  console scripts and introspection Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-09-02 11:10 +0200
      Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for  console scripts and introspection Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> - 2015-09-02 11:20 +0200
        Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for  console scripts and introspection Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-09-02 13:30 +0200
        Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for  console scripts and introspection Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-09-02 15:50 +0200
      Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for console scripts and introspection Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-02 12:50 +0200
        Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for  console scripts and introspection Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-09-02 13:30 +0200
      Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for  console scripts and introspection Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-09-02 15:50 +0200
    Re: Application libraries private, Distutils metadata available for  console scripts and introspection Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2015-09-03 00:20 +0200

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