Re: [Distutils] RECORD format in PEP 376

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:

On 2010-03-30, at 2:06 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

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Hello,

I'd like to make the RECORD file dead simple for PEP 376, and remove all the relocatable work we've started in it, since it'll go in a second file. This would be done in a second phase, with the work done at Pycon.

Ok, Iv'e done this, according to the feedback in the other thread:

paths are now relative to sys.prefix,

Ok.

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and absolute if not under sys.prefix.

Sorry, I'm a little confused. So "/etc/myapp.conf" can be in RECORD? How would the second file (to be done in a second phase) be able to relocate this absolute path?

By having another file pretty similar to the sections we want to add in setup.cfg, in the dist-info directory, with expandable variables. Then re-created the RECORD file using the new relocation (see wiki.cfg for more details)

-srid

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