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create setup.py and support proper python installation #37

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blshkv opened this issue Nov 10, 2020 · 0 comments
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create setup.py and support proper python installation #37

blshkv opened this issue Nov 10, 2020 · 0 comments

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blshkv commented Nov 10, 2020

This is a common problem that many tools which we want to distribute do not support system wide installation. Some of these tools provide their own "install.sh" or "setup.sh" with a distro specific commands (sudo apt-install) to install dependencies instead of a proper setup.py.
With a proper setup.py script, an end user can install it using the following single command:
python3 setup.py install --user. It also a distro friendly and makes life for maintainers easier.

The end result, a FHS compliant directory structure should be created.
In case if software produce any output, a local user directory should be used, such as ~.//

There are some custom cases (installing non-python packages, data files etc) which have been resolved in other packages. Bellow, are reference points on such bug reports with solutions (patches)

pentoo/pentoo-overlay#596

EDIT: #13 is kind of related, but I want to make my point clear

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