[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 at 13:05, Paul Moore wrote:
> 2009/7/7 Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>:
> [... lots of interesting stuff deleted ...]
>> I think it's not the developer's burden to decide *where* such files go;
>> rather, they should be declaring only the *purpose* of these files in
>> the distribution metadata, and it's up to the site-specific installer
>> (possibly as configured by the installing user) to decide the location
>> of each file by its declared purpose.
>
> That's a whole different PEP, though.

Which one?  It seems to me that supporting this is implicit in
the language summit goals of (1) having distutils be better support
infrastructure for system packaging utilities and (2) needing a way to
deal with resource files "that might be installed in a specific place on
the target system by the system packager".  I'll grant that I'm reading
between the lines, it isn't an explicitly stated goal.  But it was the
direction my mind went when I read Tarek's notes, given that the first
stated goal is "standardize more metadata".

But I'm not one of the people involved in system packaging tools, so
I'll leave it to them to say how useful/important this is.

--David