On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 12:43, Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> wrote: > > On 2018-09-14 12:55, Alex Grönholm wrote: > > I'm curious: what data does it attempt to install and where? Have you > > created a ticket for this somewhere? > > The OP mentioned absolute paths. However, it really sounds like a bad > idea to hard-code an absolute installation path. Let's consider it a > feature that wheel doesn't support that.
The OP hasn't said, but I assumed that it was expecting to install something in a "standard" Unix location like /etc. As a Windows user, I think that's a bad idea (and regardless of what OS I use, it's clearly a non-portable idea) but I've no idea if wheels that install stuff to locations like /etc have a sensible meaning on Unix. (They obviously don't handle being installed in --user, or in a virtualenv, so they aren't what I'd call "proper" Python packages, but maybe there's still a reasonable use case here). Regardless, I do consider it a feature that wheel doesn't support installation to absolute paths. Paul -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/ATXFWCJC6OH4BWXBI6A34E7ZU7CXT32B/
