pg_python and pg_dotconf

James William Pye x at jwp.name
Sun Jan 31 23:33:57 UTC 2010


I'm thinking about removing these from the *scripts list* so that they will not be installed *into $PREFIX/bin* by default. That is, I think I'd prefer a package or user to explicitly setup these links themselves.

Like/hate?

I'm drawn to do this for a couple reasons: I want to re-inforce that py-postgresql is a programmer's library(a bit vague, I understand), and, more importantly, installing the scripts is a bit unforgiving wrt which Python is actually being used. Consider two installs of Python in the same prefix, and py-postgresql is installed for both. pg_python/pg_dotconf points to the Python that had it's py-postgresql package installed last.

This will be for v1.0 only.


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