[Eric] Eric API files

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Sonntag, 10. August 2008, Johan Cwiklinski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all, I would like to thanks you for your work on Eric ;-)
>
> I am one of the packager of Eric for Fedora and I'm trying to package
> eric-4.2.0 for Fedora 9 but I have a little problem...
>
> pyqtconfig._pkg_config["qt_data_dir"], wich is used into install.py returns
> '/usr/lib/' on 32bits systems and '/usr/lib64/' on 64bits systems.
> Previously, it always returned '/usr/share', which is arch independant ;
> but this is no longer the case.
>
> As this is not an Eric issue, I've reported a bug against it on the
> Fedora's bz (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456761).
>
> As you can read in this bug report, one solution would be to install eric
> API files into /usr/share (I'll have to patch install.py, but this is not
> really a problem). My problem is that Eric will have to look into both
> /usr/share and /usr/{lib|lib64} for its API files ; 

Actually, eric should (and will) install the API files into the directory 
created during the QScintilla/PyQt installation 
(usually /usr/share/qt4/qsci/api/). That directory is used for the "Add from 
installed APIs" button in the APIs configuration dialog page.

Detlev
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