On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
"P.J. Eby" <pje@telecommunity.com> writes:
At 06:39 PM 1/30/2009 +0000, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
I imagine things like libdir, prefix, datadir, docdir and other things copied from autoconf. Where the defaults would be something like:
prefix = sys.prefix libdir = sys.prefix/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/pkgname datadir = sys.prefix/share/mypackage docdir = sys.prefix/share/doc/mypackage
I'm confused by the above lines: do you mean the *project* name, or the name of some package within the project? What if the project contains no packages, only modules? What is libdir for?
To clarify: Here again we come up against the unfortunate choice of the term "package" in Python to mean something confisingly different from what it means to most people dealing with software.
I imagine Floris meant what most hackers mean by "package", which is what Python perversely calls a "distribution". That may or may not be what setuptools calls a "project", I've never been clear on that
let's all use this then maybe ? http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonPackagingTerminology
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