Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > As far as I've been able to tell there is no proposed syntax in the docs > specifically for > package_data. Right. I’ve only found an example in d2’s own setup.cfg:
package_data = distutils2._backport = sysconfig.cfg distutils2.command = wininst*.exe distutils2.tests = xxmodule.c (Note that there’s a bug in build_py or config so you can’t test this right now.) > The docs for the resources option seems to suggest separating globs with > spaces, which would > be fine by me (wouldn't allow paths that contain spaces, but that's a bad > idea anyways). Agreed. > I think that allowing one glob string on each line is more readable Definitely. > Another possibility would be to allow line breaks in the value [...] > But that's getting a little more complex syntax-wise. Truly! > Agreed on getting rid of data_files--it's dangerous. Actually the resources system redefines data_files (it was even called datafiles.py and DATAFILES at one time, and it’s still handled by install_data; I think that was a better naming scheme). distutils-style data_files were practically unusable: System packagers were unhappy because they wanted to control the location of installed files, Python authors were unhappy because they could not access the files from their code. I think that’s why package_data took off. > But package_data I find very useful sometimes, and I don't think it's always > wrong. OS maintainers like the Debian project strongly disagree :) > At the very least, it's not clear to me how the above use case is intended to > be replaced. The point of resources is that it redefines data_files and is as easy to use as package_data. If you have for example a project named Spam with a Python package spamlib and a file in templates/log.txt, your code just needs to do this: from packaging.database import get_file with get_file('Spam', 'templates/log.txt') as fp: ... When run from an uninstalled checkout, for example when developing, the file will be found in the checkout. When run after being installed on a Debian system, the file will be found in /usr/local/share/spam/templates/log.txt. Each Python installation can decide (through sysconfig.cfg) where to install things. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11805> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com