Tres Seaver wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> The question then would be whether relative paths should be handled >> directly in the RECORD file (as in the current PEP) or by writing a "." >> into PREFIXES to indicate relative paths. > > Per discussion with Matthias Klose, it would be useful to split out the > following prefixes for "special" kinds of data: > > - docs > - i18n / locales
There are probably all sorts of other useful distinctions which could be made. However, that would be a topic for a different PEP - as Tarek pointed out, improving distutils is such a huge can of worms that trying to tackle all the issues in a single PEP would most likely just result in developer burnout rather than improvement. The basic PREFIXES discussion is at least somewhat relevant to PEP 376, since the distutils uninstaller needs *some* way for the bdist_* installers to tell it where the non-relative files ended up. Since we need a mechanism for it, it might as well be one that should help with the system package builders needs in the future. Actually adding new categories, while I agree it would be useful, isn't something that is needed to support uninstallation. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
