[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[PJ Eby]

On Jun 21, 2012 10:12 AM, "Chris McDonough" <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
> - Install "package resources", which are non-Python source files that
>  happen to live in package directories.

I love this phrasing, by the way ("non-Python source files").

A pet peeve of mine is the insistence by some people that such files are
"data" and don't belong in package directories, despite the fact that if
you gave them a .py extension and added data="""...""" around them, they'd
be considered part of the code.  A file's name and internal format aren't
what distinguishes code from data; it's the way it's *used* that matters.

I think "packaging" has swung the wrong way on this particular point, and
that resources and data files should be distinguished in setup.cfg, with
sysadmins *not* being given the option to muck about with resources --
especially not to install them in locations where they might be mistaken
for something editable.
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