>> It doesn't need to, and reluctance is not wrt. to the proposed new >> layout, but wrt. changing the current one. Tons of infrastructure >> depends on the files having exactly the names that they have now, >> and being located in exactly the locations where they are currently >> located. Any change to that, whatever minor, will cause problems >> to some people. > > Just to be absolutely clear: You are talking about the build environment, > right? Because I am not proposing to change any layout of the > installed Python (wherever that may be :)
Correct. > I am baffled about why the build environment's layout matters, > but once an .msi install can place the binaries in any > old place it wants. The build structure doesn't have to > reflect the final installed structure at all. No. But still, people like to be able to "run" Python out of a source check-out. This has been supported for a long time, and more and more stuff was added to support it. For examples within Python itself, see the support in distutils, getpathp.c, PCbuild/rt.bat, and Tools/buildbot/*.bat. Reportedly (by Mark), building Mozilla (the web browser) also "knows" about PCbuild. 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
