[Nix-dev] Re: python-wrapper or similar

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Nathaniel Griswold <griswold at cs.wisc.edu> writes:

> Hm, ok. I went ahead and just used mkDerivation directly "setup.py
> install" instead of going the buildPythonPackage route. This yields
> directories instead of eggs. I then made wrappers with appropriate
> PYTHONPATH around the binaries, similar to what some other packages
> did.

Normally all this is automated by ‘buildPythonPackage’, including the
creation of wrappers for stand-alone programs.

Thanks,
Ludo’.