At 10:14 PM 12/15/2005 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >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).
The relevance to "sharing expat instances" was Fredrik's original question about placement of the shared library for cElementTree. The question wasn't whether to get rid of lib-dynload in general, but whether there was any reason to do something other than just making ElementTree a distutils-installed package with the C extensions inside, the way normal distutils-installed packages are. In any case the discussion is probably moot by now if ElementTree is now already built as part of the core. _______________________________________________ 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
