Part Design libs install location

[peterl94]

Hey there,

I have a quick question: how come the Part Design libraries are installed into Mod/PartDesign? I see in the CMake file there is a comment saying that they must go where the __init__.py file is, but why only Part Design?

[jriegel]

No, we don't use the __init__.py mechanism so far. The module directories are added directly to the python path.

There are different cMake mechanisms to move the files in the build. E.g. on Windows we don't use the INSTALL target, the files get moved/created by the compiler and some cMake scripts which moving additional files and libs...

[wmayer]

No, we don't use the __init__.py mechanism so far. The module directories are added directly to the python path.

Yes, we do! PartDesign has some sub-directories and in order to load the Python modules there we e.g. have to do:

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from PartDesign.WizardShaft import Shaft

Therefore we need an __init__.py in the PartDesign directory. However, most of the time Part design is loaded by:

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import PartDesign

And this call basically only loads the __init__.py file and in order to load the actual PartDesign stuff the __init__.py file contains this statement:

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import PartDesign

which then loads the actual shared library (under MacOSX it's the .dylib extension I guess) and therefore it must be at a place where it can be found.

[peterl94]

Ah, that makes sense. I wondered what made it special.