On 3/13/2012 9:57 PM, VanL wrote:
On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:37 PM, "Martin v. Löwis"<mar...@v.loewis.de>
wrote:
1) The layout for the python root directory for all platforms
should be as follows:
stdlib = {base/userbase}/lib/python{py_version_short} platstdlib
= {base/userbase}/lib/python{py_version_short} purelib =
{base/userbase}/lib/python{py_version_short}/site-packages
platlib =
{base/userbase}/lib/python{py_version_short}/site-packages
include = {base/userbase}/include/python{py_version_short}
scripts = {base/userbase}/bin data = {base/userbase}
[...]
I have talked with a number of people at PyCon, including Tarek
and MvL. Nobody objected, and several thought it was a good
idea.
I admit that I didn't understand that lib/python{version} was also
part of the proposal. I'm fine with the bin/ change, but skeptical
about the lib change - this just adds a redundant level of
directories on Windows. The installation will end up in
c:\python33\lib\python3.3
which has the software name and version twice in the path.
Do we *really* need this?
We *already* have this. The only difference in this proposal is that
we go from py_version_nodot to py_version_short, i.e. from
c:\python33\lib\python33
Right not, we (at least I) have
.../python33/Lib/<library files>
.../python32/Lib/<library files>
to
c:\python33\lib\python3.3
Given that we already repeat it, isn't it better to be consistent?
But there is no repetition currently on Windows installations.
I though you were just proposing to switch lib (lower-cased, and scripts
renamed as bin, and pythonxx). So I do not think I yet understand what
the proposal is and how it would be different from what I have now.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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