PEP 376 - contents of RECORD file
Looking at a RECORD file installed by pysetup (on 3.3 trunk, on Windows) all of the filenames seem to be absolute, even though the package is pure-Python and so everything is under site-packages. Looking at PEP 376, it looks like the paths should be relative to site-packages. Two questions: 1. Am I reading this right? Is it a bug in pysetup? 2. Does it matter? Are relative paths needed, or is it just nice to have? Oh, and a third question - where is the best place to ask these questions? Now that packaging is in core, is python-dev OK? Or should I be asking on the distutils SIG or the packaging developers list? Thanks, Paul.
Hi Paul,
Looking at a RECORD file installed by pysetup (on 3.3 trunk, on Windows) all of the filenames seem to be absolute, even though the package is pure-Python and so everything is under site-packages. Looking at PEP 376, it looks like the paths should be relative to site-packages. Two questions:
1. Am I reading this right? Is it a bug in pysetup? I believe so.
2. Does it matter? Are relative paths needed, or is it just nice to have? I’ll try to find the mailing list thread that lead to this change.
Regards
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Paul Moore
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Éric Araujo