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Mon Oct 22 22:13:39 CEST 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-October/122350.html

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:39:07 -0400
Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > How does the pure / plat distinction as outlined in PEP 427 cope with
> > Debian's system of separating installed files into pyshared (for *.py
> > and *.egg-info files) and pythonX.Y/dist-packages (for *.pyc and *.so
> > files)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Antoine.
> 
> It is only there because distutils has a purelib/platlib distinction,
> so the spec represents it. See
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/49de26395d1a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py#l85

Ok, so does this mean Debian would have to build their own installer if
they want to spread the wheel's contents as appropriate for their
directory layout?

Regards

Antoine.

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