Right way to build/install SimpleCV (source folder cluttered with .pyc files)

asked 2013-04-05 13:11:57 -0600

MhAckNI
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updated 2013-04-08 12:57:41 -0600

I wish to install SimpleCV on my system to contribute as a developer to the project. I roughly followed the installation guide at https://github.com/ingenuitas/SimpleCV#installation to install SimpleCV on my Fedora17 machine.

Should python setup.py install be always run in the source folder? Usually in CMake based C++ projects, it is a good practice to build in a folder separate from the source folder. Should n t python projects be built that way?

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answered 2013-04-08 08:57:44 -0600

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I think you will want to run sudo python setup.py develop. This should force python to reload SimpleCV every time you import the library.

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answered 2013-04-08 12:56:31 -0600

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@kscottz: so this should be run from inside the SimpleCV source folder. Is it?
I guess i dont need sudo since i am working on a virtualenv i created specially for SimpleCV. And yes, i cloned the develop branch.No problems with that.
The question was in fact about the right way to do a build. I now see that my source folder is filled with .pyc files. That looks terrible and the sight of source folders getting filled with .pyc files somehow does not seem elegant to me, as compared to my experience in C++ with CMake based projects where the build is always out-of-source. Hence the question.

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I think this pretty standard for python, if it is a functional problem we can address it, it is a purely aesthetic problem, it will probably go to the bottom of the queue.

kscottz ( 2013-04-09 08:28:31 -0600 )edit

@kscottz: understood.Thank you.

MhAckNI ( 2013-04-10 02:21:48 -0600 )edit

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