[docs] [issue25592] distutils docs: data_files always uses sys.prefix

Jeroen Demeyer report at bugs.python.org
Thu Jan 31 01:14:21 EST 2019


Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at UGent.be> added the comment:

> Fixing this on 2.7 would require additional investigation (distutils might have diverged)

Let's be honest, we are talking about distutils here. So it's way more likely that it didn't diverge and that the behavior is exactly the same on 2.7 and 3.8. So I would suggest to backport it to 2.7 also.

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