Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Building rdiff-backup from CVS

[Sébastien Maret]

On 3/6/07, Andrew Ferguson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sebastien Maret wrote:
> > How can I build rdiff-backup from the CVS version? There is no
> > setup.py at the root. There is one in dist/ but ot can be called from
> > there.
>
> There's a CVS-README that explains how to run from CVS.
>
> If you want to install from CVS, simply execute compilec.py in the
> rdiff_backup folder and then copy that folder to your Python
> installation's site-packages folder.
>
> The files in the top directory called "rdiff-backup" and
> "rdiff-backup-statistics" go in a folder in your PATH. (They're the top
> level scripts that use the modules in the folder you just installed in
> site-packages.)

Thanks.

I don't understand what is the point of this though. Why not just just
move the setup.py script on the top directory? One just need to
replace "cmodule.c" by "rdiff_backup/cmodule.c" and
"_librsyncmodule.c" by "rdiff_backup/_librsyncmodule.c" in this script
and it works just fine.

Sébastien