[Python-Dev] Standard install locations for Python ?

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:07:00 +0100


Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:20:06PM +0100, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> >On Unix, there appears to be no standard location, unless the
> >documentation consists of man pages or perhaps info files. So
> ><prefix>/share/doc is probably a place as good as any other.
> 
> This seems like a good suggestion.  Should docs go in
> <prefix>/share/doc/python<version>/, then?  Perhaps with
> subdirectories for different extensions?

Hmm, I guess it's better to follow bdist_rpm here: put
the docs into a subdir under .../doc/ using the package
name and version.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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