On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Floris Bruynooghe < floris.bruynooghe@gmail.com> 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 wouldn't want to use those. What goes in libdir, what goes in datadir? I don't know, and frankly the distinctions start getting really arbitrary. I would rather see something like pkg_resources existing API, where there is some file that maps out how the local names of files (where they'd be in a checkout) map to their installed location, then the pkg_resources code could finds the real location of the file. -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org