[Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> "P.J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:
>
>> At 06:39 PM 1/30/2009 +0000, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
>> >I imagine things like libdir, prefix, datadir, docdir and other
>> >things copied from autoconf. Where the defaults would be something
>> >like:
>> >
>> >prefix = sys.prefix
>> >libdir = sys.prefix/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/pkgname
>> >datadir = sys.prefix/share/mypackage
>> >docdir = sys.prefix/share/doc/mypackage
>>
>> I'm confused by the above lines: do you mean the *project* name, or
>> the name of some package within the project? What if the project
>> contains no packages, only modules? What is libdir for?
>
> To clarify: Here again we come up against the unfortunate choice of
> the term "package" in Python to mean something confisingly different
> from what it means to most people dealing with software.
>
> I imagine Floris meant what most hackers mean by "package", which is
> what Python perversely calls a "distribution". That may or may not
> be what setuptools calls a "project", I've never been clear on that

let's all use this then maybe ?

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonPackagingTerminology



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