[Distutils] elements of setuptools/wheel/FHS file categories proposal

[Daniel Holth]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 April 2015 at 20:27, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> a default mapping specifying the publisher's preference
>
> I didn't think the project author got to specify a preference. All
> they say is what categories various files go into, and it's the
> *installer* that maps them to locations.
> Paul

If an application relied on relative paths from the root of a
category, then it would probably include the same folder structure in
its development checkout; setup.py would say "copy ./data into
$datadir", modulo ignore patterns; it would be convenient if the
mechanism pointing to $datadir pointed to ./data.