[Distutils] Disposition of C extensions and packages

[Michel Sanner]

On Dec 20,  4:49pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> I claim that it *is* an issue of disk space.  Having the installation
> of a particular package spread out over two places is inconvenient
> from a management point of view, and sharing one of those places
> between different installations (for different platforms) of the same
> package just makes it a lot worse.
>
What management are you talking about here ?? It seems to me that duplicate
copies of identical files (one copy per platform) is inconvenient (at least for
my perspective).

Moreover, why provide an prefix and an exec_prefix if we are going to put
everything into the same tree anyway ??

-Michel



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