On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Floris Bruynooghe < floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I imagine things like libdir, prefix, datadir, docdir and other things > copied from autoconf. Where the defaults would be something like: > > prefix = sys.prefix > libdir = sys.prefix/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/pkgname > datadir = sys.prefix/share/mypackage > docdir = sys.prefix/share/doc/mypackage > I wouldn't want to use those. What goes in libdir, what goes in datadir? I don't know, and frankly the distinctions start getting really arbitrary. I would rather see something like pkg_resources existing API, where there is some file that maps out how the local names of files (where they'd be in a checkout) map to their installed location, then the pkg_resources code could finds the real location of the file. -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org
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