[issue6060] PYTHONHOME should be more flexible (and controllable by --libdir)

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

PYTHONHOME is defined as 'prefix:exec-prefix'.  Given that definition
the library must be resolved relatively by appending 'lib/pythonX.Y'. 
Given the long standing nature of this interface, I doubt the meaning
can be changed.

It might be possible to _extend_ the definition of PYTHONHOME to have
additional elements, one of which would be libdir.  It seems to me that
this would be backward compatible.  This possibility, and/or other
solutions, would be more appropriately discussed on python-ideas.  And
then of course someone would have to develop a patch to implement
whatever scheme wins consensus (assuming the consensus is that this is a
problem worth solving).

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nosy: +r.david.murray
priority:  -> normal
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2 -Python 2.5, Python 2.6

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