Re: [Distutils] distutils in Mandrake 8.2

Marko Samastur wrote:

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 11:15, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

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I can see a message that is telling me that .pth is being build, but the file is missing in the created rpm.

Why .pth files ? Why not simply *copy* the code to site-packages ?

Mainly, but not only, because of estetic reasons. My project already has 26 .py files and this number will only rise.

Dumping them all in one directory (and other authors doing the same), would just make that directory look like a trashcan and could also result in filename conflicts (which can be otherwise avoided if certain modules in subdirectories are never directly imported).

Why not wrap them up as one or more Python packages ?