If you move the files, other things can potentially break, too. For example,
any scripts installed will have their shebangs adjusted to point to a
particular interpreter, e.g. a venv's interpreter. If they get moved to a
different location, the shebang lines may become invalid.
I don't believe that we have to support such moving of files outside of the
knowledge of packaging tools.
Regards,
Vinay Sajip
>________________________________
> From: Kevin Horn <kevin.h...@gmail.com>
>To: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk>
>Sent: Monday, 31 December 2012, 19:19
>Subject: Re: [Distutils] Some clarifications and/or corrections to PEP 376
>
>
>On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>
I agree that PEP 376 isn't ideal in what it specifies in this area. The simplest
>>solution would surely be absolute paths only. What are the downsides apart
>>from
>>the disk space used for the extra lengths of the filenames?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Vinay Sajip
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>If you ever move the files, the absolute paths won't be valid any more. It
>seems kind of unlikely that this would cause problems, but it might.
>
>--
>Kevin Horn
>
>
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