On 18 July 2015 at 02:13, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: >> Someone needs to write that specification. Propose we forget about Windows >> for the first revision, so that it is possible to get it done. > > If we want Windows support in the long run -- and we do -- we should > be thinking about it from the start. But if it's going in the > Python-managed dirs, it doesn't have to follow Windows convention ...
I agree that excluding Windows is probably a mistake (differing expectations on Windows will come back to bite you if you do that). But Windows shouldn't be a huge issue as long as it's clearly noted that all directories will be within the Python-managed dirs. (Even if the system install on Unix doesn't work like this, virtualenvs on Unix have to, so that's not a Windows-specific point). Managing categories that make no sense on particular platforms (e.g. manpages on Windows) is the only other thing that I can think of that considering Windows might bring up, but again, it's not actually Windows specific (HTML Help files on Unix, for instance, would be similar - an obvious resolution is just to document that certain directories simply won't be installed on inappropriate platforms). Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
