On 20 Apr, 2006, at 22:07, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:This is another area where API standardization is important; as soon as modules are loaded out of a zip file, the traditional approach of looking relative to os.path.dirname(__file__) no longer works.2. standardize on file names, not API. If I want to deploy read-only data files, I put them into /usr/share. If I need read-write files, I put them into /var. I did not have such a problem yet on other systems, but I would also try to follow the conventions of these systems.
I don't think anyone mentioned this, but part of pkg_resources is an API for loading package-related data. That currently looks for data near the code, which makes Linux packagers unhappy but it should be possible to enhance pkg_resources to look in other locations (such as a directory below /usr/share/python) as well.The data loading API's is one feature of pkg_resources that would make it easier to locate data while at the same time storing data in locations that
the various platforms proscribe without hardcoding such knowledge into every program.BTW. Please keep in mind that one of the major platforms for python doesn't have a proper package manager at all. OSX does have an installer application, but that's just that: a GUI for dropping files on you disk. There is no uninstaller,
and no real dependency management. Ronald
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