Sept. 1, 2014
5:12 p.m.
My view is that Python packaging should not support installation of files to anywhere other than subdirectories of the scheme [...]
For packages that need to install to absolute locations, I would suggest that this be handled by a post-install scriptlocations [...] Comments? I'd prefer, and think it's reasonable for a new wheel spec support absolute paths (minimally, so we don't break existing distributions) Nick posted this a while back: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi-metadata-formats/issue/13/add-a-new-subdirec...