> >>Ok, I've started looking at adding support for this. Here's > >>a couple of things I found: > >> > >>* getpath.c: > >> Some of the '/' path delimiters are hard coded; shouldn't > >> these be replaced with SEP ? > > > > All the platforms that I'm awware of that don't use '/' have their own > > getpath.c copy anyway (the one for Windows is PC/getpathp.c). > > But can't hurt to change these in the standard getpath.c, right ? > (reduce() is looking for SEP, so on platforms which do use the > standard getpath.c but have a different os.sep could be mislead > by the hardcoded slash in some constants) -0; it's too painful to think about all the places that would have to be fixed and how to fix them. > >>* There's no easy way to find the first item on sys.path which > >> starts the default path added by Python at startup time. It seems > >> that a suffix search for "python23.zip" gives the best hint. > >> The only other possibility I see is writing the support code > >> directly into getpath.c. > > > > That's where I'd put it, yes. > > You mean "put it into getpath.c" or "put it in front of > .../python23.zip" ? Put it in getpath.c. > >>* site.py contains code which prefixes "site-packages" with both > >> sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix. Is this really used anywhere ? > >> (distutils and the old Makefile.pre.in both install to > >> sys.prefix per default) > > > > I thought they might install extension modules in exec_prefix. But > > maybe it's a YAGNI. > > Hmm, I've just built a Python interpreter with different > prefix and exec_prefix settings: using such an interpreter > lets distutils default to the exec_prefix subtree. However, > Python itself does not create a site-packages directory in > that tree (make install creates this directory in > $(prefix)/lib/pythonX.X/ and not $(exec_prefix)/lib/pythonX.X/). Probably an oversight in the Makefile. Doesn't distutils create a needed directory if it doesn't exist? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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