[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

[Nick Coghlan]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> For example, I quite like the concept behind the various ideas for
>> "location" or "prefix" definitions either in the RECORD file itself or
>> in a separate PREFIXES file, since such approaches feeds directly in to
>> part b) above.
> 
> I don't understand the point. Since RECORD is specific to a particular machine
> and installation (it is generated at install time), what would you gain by
> adding a fake genericity to its entries?

My understanding is that RECORD isn't generated at install time for the
bdist_* commands -it's generated at the time the binary distribution is
created. Hence the problems raised with the idea of having absolute
paths in RECORD - if they were written directly into RECORD they would
reflect where the files were when the distribution was created, not
where they end up when it is installed.

Cheers,
Nick.

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