Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Right; the question is why not just EXEC_PREFIX "/lib/python" VERSION > instead. What benefit does the separate directory offer?
I can only guess: it's primarily a matter of tidiness. > Note that the distutils, when installing a package containing C > extensions, will install to site-packages under sys.exec_prefix; it > does not separate the C extensions into special alternate library > directories. Yes, that's inconsistent. One way to make it consistent would be to honor lib-dynload; the other to get rid of lib-dynload. I cannot see how one of these option is better than the other (nor can I see what the relevance for the expat discussion is, so I changed the subject). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
