[Distutils] [ANN] pkgdata

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 25, 2004, at 11:28 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 11:11 AM 3/25/04 -0500, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> As per the BOF last night, here is the pkgdata module that I 
>> mentioned.  Currently the only project using it is pygame.  The 
>> "sys.datapath" mechanism that I talked about *could actually be 
>> implemented* on top of this system, supposing an appropriate adapter 
>> was written to support it!  Remember:  pkgdata is *just a hook*.  It 
>> doesn't do anything other give the eventual option of doing something 
>> smarter than os.path.join(os.path.basedir(__file__), data).  When you 
>> figure out what something smarter is, or you change your mind about 
>> what the smarter solution is (inside of an app bundle vs. system wide 
>> install, etc.), you don't have to refactor any of the code that uses 
>> pkgdata.
>
> Do you plan to support the PEP 302 'get_data()' facility?

Probably not, I don't think anyone ever implemented it, and it seems 
more complicated than it needs to be.  If someone really does use it, 
and thinks it should be implemented, please speak up.

-bob