On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > 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.
FWIW, the original reason I argued for relative paths in PEP 376 is supporting installations that are shared across architectures for cross-platform development. At OSAF, it was common to have a single installation directory shared by a Linux, Mac, *and* Windows machine simultaneously. Absolute paths would break in such a scenario, as each accessing machine would see a different absolute path. Some of setuptools' design is specifically mangled to handle this kind of thing. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
