> My view is that Python packaging should not support installation of
> files to anywhere other than subdirectories of the scheme [...]

For packages that need to install to absolute locations, I would

suggest that this be handled by a post-install scriptlocations

[...] Comments?


I'd prefer, and think it's reasonable for a new wheel spec support absolute
paths (minimally, so we don't break existing distributions)
Nick posted this a while back:
https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi-metadata-formats/issue/13/add-a-new-subdirectory-to-allow-wheels-to
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