At 08:10 PM 9/16/2009 -0400, David Lyon wrote:
To answer the question, things like destination directory for applications could change ie /opt/myapp or \Program Files\myapp for linux and windows respectively.
It's not the application's business what the installation directory is; certainly it's not an issue for the "static metadata" use case, nor is it something that should be specified in setup.py or setup.cfg, as that is 100% the user's business to choose, and the platform tools to supply a default for.
But this is a long way off at our present work rate. We shouldn't think ahead too much.
I suspect there is some confusion here; I'm precisely suggesting that we not invent a new, general wheel if we can address the real use cases with a slight adjustment to something we already have (e.g. the extras syntax).
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