<p dir="ltr">Only the installer cares about RECORD. The application knows it's looking for doom1.wad and it just needs to know what the $wadfiles path was - it just needs the prefix, which is all the new option writes. That is why I don't propose using record for this. We will not allow every file in the dist to be relocated relative to every other.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 4, 2014 2:43 PM, "Vinay Sajip" <<a href="mailto:vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk">vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
> Provide a mechanism for recording the actual paths used<br>
> during installation (in wheel.json).<br>
<br>
Well, there is already a list of paths used which is used during<br>
uninstallation (RECORD). It would make sense to record all the<br>
installed files there, and no reason to duplicate that elsewhere.<br>
<br>
In general, IMO importable (executable) Python files should be<br>
avoided for this kind of use case - JSON files in the .dist-info<br>
would be better. We see from the .pth file and setup.py examples<br>
that executable Python for these types of usages can be a bit of<br>
a double-edged sword.<br>
<br>
Possibly we should replace RECORD, etc. with JSON equivalents<br>
(to be neat and tidy).<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Vinay Sajip<br>
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