No one wants wheel to be able to install things outside of the virtualenv. What people have repeatedly asked for is the ability to install things somewhere besides $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python#.#/site-packages/, places like $VIRTUAL_ENV/etc/ for example. Should all the config files, documentation, data, man pages, licenses, images, go into $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python#.#/site-packages/? Or can we do a better job letting people put files in $VIRTUAL_ENV/xyz?
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 9:51 AM sashk <b...@sashk.xyz> wrote: > > > 14.09.2018, 08:37, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com>: > > 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. > > No, I'm not installing anything into standard unix locations. My package > is for internal use, so we had a luxury to write it specifically for use > with virtual environment. > > We need to install Jupyter kernels (and other files) into > $VIRTUAL_ENV/etc/jupyter and $VIRTUAL_ENV/share/jupyter paths. This was > done with the help of data_files, and works unless we build wheel, because > of use of absolute paths. > > Do I understand correctly, that when using relative paths in the > data_files and installing package into virtual environment, installation > prefix is sys.prefix and it is the same as $VIRTUAL_ENV? > > Thanks. > -- > 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/AR65F7SMLRN54FKZ6EI6LKZZDCVFNKUX/ >
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