On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 at 13:05, Paul Moore wrote: > 2009/7/7 Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>: > [... lots of interesting stuff deleted ...] >> I think it's not the developer's burden to decide *where* such files go; >> rather, they should be declaring only the *purpose* of these files in >> the distribution metadata, and it's up to the site-specific installer >> (possibly as configured by the installing user) to decide the location >> of each file by its declared purpose. > > That's a whole different PEP, though. Which one? It seems to me that supporting this is implicit in the language summit goals of (1) having distutils be better support infrastructure for system packaging utilities and (2) needing a way to deal with resource files "that might be installed in a specific place on the target system by the system packager". I'll grant that I'm reading between the lines, it isn't an explicitly stated goal. But it was the direction my mind went when I read Tarek's notes, given that the first stated goal is "standardize more metadata". But I'm not one of the people involved in system packaging tools, so I'll leave it to them to say how useful/important this is. --David
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