Re: Patch for locale placement

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm working on the formencode package for Fedora and noticed the i18n
> directory with the locales wasn't being placed in the system catalog.
> There's two parts to making that work:
> 
> 1) Be able to find the locales whether they live in the egg or in the
> system catalog.

OK, patch applied.

> 2) Have the package install the files in the right place depending on
> whether an egg is being built or the files are being placed on the
> system in expanded form.
> 
> setuptools makes #2 hard to accomplish so I haven't even attempted it
> for this pass.  I've struggled with setuptools where I am upstream and
> don't have any solution that seems clean to me yet.  If I get something
> working in the future, I'll send another patch to do so.

This is tricky.  I'm not sure what a good solution is at all; you might 
want to ask on the distutils-sig list, as they might have suggestions. 
While it's appropriate for an RPM to install files in /usr/share/locale, 
I don't think it's a good idea to put that in FormEncode's setup.py 
directly (unless maybe it's enabled by some explicit option).


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