On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > "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
let's all use this then maybe ? http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonPackagingTerminology > :-/ > > -- > \ "Everything is futile." —Marvin of Borg | > `\ | > _o__) | > Ben Finney > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
