On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Tim Smith <tim@tim-smith.us> wrote:
As a Homebrew maintainer this sounds like something that Homebrew could influence. Are there any packages in the wild that use this mechanism? It seems that headers are mostly installed beneath site-packages. I don't have strong feelings about whether Homebrew should have better support for install_headers or whether that would be straightforward to implement but IIRC we've had no prior reports of this causing trouble.
Thanks, Tim
Thanks Tim, The OS X python install is the only one I know of where headers installed with the install_headers command are not placed in a subdirectory of `sys.config('include')`. Besides, `pip.locations.distutils_scheme` returns the right include directory even in the case of homebrew. My point here was that this pip.locations function should probably be a feature of distutils itself. Although I would probably not have discovered the need for it if homebrew was placing extra headers in the same place as everyone else ! I don't think that using the package_data to place headers under site-package is the right thing to do in general. Then you need to rely on some python function to return the include directory... Sylvain