Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: >> For example, I quite like the concept behind the various ideas for >> "location" or "prefix" definitions either in the RECORD file itself or >> in a separate PREFIXES file, since such approaches feeds directly in to >> part b) above. > > I don't understand the point. Since RECORD is specific to a particular machine > and installation (it is generated at install time), what would you gain by > adding a fake genericity to its entries? My understanding is that RECORD isn't generated at install time for the bdist_* commands -it's generated at the time the binary distribution is created. Hence the problems raised with the idea of having absolute paths in RECORD - if they were written directly into RECORD they would reflect where the files were when the distribution was created, not where they end up when it is installed. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------
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