On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:

On 1 February 2014 17:53, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> My pref is [...] and really pushing people to use the loader APIs
>> for reading intra-package "files".
>
> +1
>
>> Maybe the Packaging Users Guide could have a
>> Recommended Deployment Strategies section
> [...]
>> (especially if the instructions work on all platforms, i.e. no
>> symlink discussions)
>
> +1 again.

+1 to both of these.

While I'm not in a good position to launch the latter suggestion, the former one I can help with. =)  I'll start a thread over on import-sig about how to handle get_data/set_data and anything missing so that intra-package data reading can be covered by loaders.