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firecat53 / urlscan

Mutt and terminal url selector (similar to urlview)
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setup.py not installing man and doc information #84

Closed Boruch-Baum closed 5 years ago

Boruch-Baum commented 5 years ago

When running python3 setup.py install --user for version 0.9.2, the installer does successfully install the executable to ~/.local/bin, and does install an egg to ~/.local/lib/.... ; however the man pages are not installed to ~/.local/share/man/man1, and the doc files aren't installed ti ~/.local/share/doc/urlscan.

firecat53 commented 5 years ago

I dug into this for awhile and determined that there is no easy way to make python setup.py install put the data_files items in the correct place. It is possible, but at the cost of complexity in setup.py. I think given that pip is available by default in both Python 2.x and 3.x now, I'll just remove the setup.py install method from the README as a recommended installation method. pip install puts all the extra files in the correct spot for root and user installs.

Thoughts?

Boruch-Baum commented 5 years ago

Thoughts?

Sounds reasonable to me. In the bigger picture, if you're indicating that this is a bug in setup.py, could you file a bug for it?

firecat53 commented 5 years ago

Oof...I'm not even sure I understand python packaging enough to make a coherent bug report! It's constantly changing and with most people using pip, I'm just not going to worry about. Thanks!