.py files install to dist-packages not site-packages

[Bruno Postle]

[Just working on the 2011.1.0 fedora rpm package]

I'm no python expert so correct me if I'm wrong, the Hugin .py, .pyc & .pyo files install to here:

   $LIBDIR/python2.7/dist-packages

...whereas the fedora documentation suggests they would go into:

   $LIBDIR/python2.7/site-packages

In particular they say that python libs should go in whatever location you get when you run this command:

  python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(1))"

Which here is /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages

[Yuv (yuv)]

I am no expert either, but the logical place where I would put Hugin Python scripts is:
* /usr/local/bin/ (or /usr/bin) for HSI scripts, i.e. those that are meant to be CLI commands or stand-alone GUI tools that simply use Hugin functionality.
* /usr/local/share/hugin/plugins (or /usr/share/hugin/plugins) for HPI scripts, i.e. those that only make sense when run as plugins from within Hugin. The plugins directory is to be created new.

The above is for "system-wide" distributed scripts and plugins that will be part of core Hugin.

Beyond that, the user can write their own scripts anywhere they can put executables with 'import hsi'; and we should make provision for a standard location in the user's own folder for his self-written plug-ins.

I am not sure that it makes sense to install .pyc and .pyo - IIRC these are generated automatically the first time the .py is executed.

We will also need equivalent locations for Windows and OSX.

[Bruno Postle (brunopostle)]

These are not scripts, this is the Hugin python interface itself. This is a python library, so it make sense to install into $LIBDIR just like any other reusable python code that should be available system-wide.

The .pyc and .pyo files need to be built and installed, unless you are running Hugin as root they will not be generated at runtime.

[Yuv (yuv)]

Sorry for misunderstanding the report. Now I understand. The path was sort of a mix of hard-coded / generated for Ubuntu.

Tried to fix in changeset 5285:868a9b2d0977

Please test. Here on Ubuntu it makes no difference because the location is the correct one.

[Bruno Postle (brunopostle)]

Thanks, seems to be ok here. At least the files now get installed into /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages on fedora.