[pygame] Re: deleting old files with distutils?

[René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

I added a temporary runtime check and warning into lib/__init__.py

This way it can warn people who have installed from other installers
(.exe .msi, dmg deb etc etc).

We can remove it from the final release... since the camera.so hasn't
been in any official releases.  Since leaving it there will slow down
things a bit.


distutils doesn't seem to have any remove old files functionality
unfortunately.

I remember we did something similar with color.pyd previously in the
windows installer (and maybe elsewhere?).


I've made a bug report about it to python here:
http://bugs.python.org/issue5342

There's some new activity in fixing up distutils recently, so it's
worthwhile reporting bugs now.   (whereas previously bugs have sat
there since 2001 :)



cheers!


On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:05 AM, René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hey,
>
> with the camera.so now being _camera.so and camera.py being included,
> I would like to make sure camera.so and camera.pyd are deleted from
> the installed place.  Otherwise python looks at .so and .pyd files
> over .py files, and badness happens.
>
> Does distutils allow doing this?  It seems to just copy over the top usually.
>
> Failing that, I'd like to make sure the .py file is imported, rather
> than the .so or .pyd.
>