I’m wondering though, why? The wheel format already offers a data directory, couldn’t it be used for most of the things mentioned?
> On 14/9/2018, at 22:25, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > <mailto:b...@sashk.xyz>> wrote: > > > 14.09.2018, 08:37, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com > <mailto:p.f.mo...@gmail.com>>: >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 12:43, Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be >> <mailto: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 > <mailto:distutils-sig@python.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org > <mailto:distutils-sig-le...@python.org> > https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.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/ > > <https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/AR65F7SMLRN54FKZ6EI6LKZZDCVFNKUX/> > -- > 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/YSMYRZDS3DESU6YOCVSGP7ZMGQJUAK77/
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