On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Brett Cannon<br...@python.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:23, Jan Matejek <jan.mate...@novell.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm cross-posting this to distributi...@freedesktop and python-dev, >> because the topic is relevant to both groups and should be solved in >> cooperation. >> >> The issue: >> >> In Python's default configuration (on linux), both purelib (location for >> pure python modules) and platlib (location for platform-dependent binary >> extensions) point to $prefix/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages. >> That is no good for two main reasons. >> >> One, python depends on the "lib" directory. (from distro's point of >> view, prefix is /usr, so let's talk /usr/lib) Due to this, it's >> impossible to install python under /usr/lib64 without heavy patching. >> Repeated attempts to bring python developers to acknowledge and rectify >> the situation have all failed (common argument here is "that would mean >> redesign of distutils and huge parts of whatnot"). > > This is now Tarek's call, so this may or may not have changed in terms of > what the (now) distutils maintainer thinks. >
I don't recall those repeated attempts , but I've been around for less than two years. You are very welcome to come in the Distutils-SIG ML to discuss these matters. I'm moving the discussion there. Among the proposals you have detailed, the sharedir way seems like the most simple/interesting one (depending on you answer to Brett's question ) Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ 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
