[New-bugs-announce] [issue27123] Allow `install_headers` command to follow specific directory structure

[Sylvain Corlay]

New submission from Sylvain Corlay:

(instead of making a flat copy of the specified list of headers)

Unlike wheel's `data_files`, which allows to specify data files as a list of tuples

`[(target_directory, [list of files for target directory])]` 

the `headers` setup keyword argument only let's you specify a list of files that will be copied over to a sub-directory of `sysconfig.get_path('include')`.

It would be useful to enable the same feature for headers as we have for data files.

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components: Distutils
messages: 266360
nosy: dstufft, eric.araujo, sylvain.corlay
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Allow `install_headers` command to follow specific directory structure
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.6

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