On 13 May 2015 at 00:44, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: > Cross-posting to distutils-sig: > > As a prerequisite to adding useful finer-grained installations to > setuptools & wheel, I propose adding install_paths.json as a metadata > file within the egg-info and dist-info directories, initially > containing only the current paths as a key - value mappping, for > example it might contain the following keys: > > base > data > headers > lib > libbase > platbase > platlib > purelib > scripts > userbase (~/.local) > usersite (~/.local/lib/python...) > > These are the existing paths present as properties on the > distutils/setuptools install command. Later, when we add a finer > grained install scheme, those paths would also land in the new > install_paths.json file.
+1, this sounds like a good incremental step forward to me. I'm not sure how best to document it, though. Perhaps have this initial increment as an implementation detail, and then formalise it in the next version of the wheel spec. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
