"P.J. Eby" <p...@telecommunity.com> writes: > At 06:39 PM 1/30/2009 +0000, Floris Bruynooghe 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'm confused by the above lines: do you mean the *project* name, or > the name of some package within the project? What if the project > contains no packages, only modules? What is libdir for?
To clarify: Here again we come up against the unfortunate choice of the term “package” in Python to mean something confisingly different from what it means to most people dealing with software. I imagine Floris meant what most hackers mean by “package”, which is what Python perversely calls a “distribution”. That may or may not be what setuptools calls a “project”, I've never been clear on that :-/ -- \ “Everything is futile.” —Marvin of Borg | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
