[Distutils] Disposition of C extensions and packages

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Guido van Rossum writes:
 > I think it's worth looking again into the issue of where
 > package-specific shared libs should come from when the package itself
 > is loaded from an archive.

  As well as in the existing case of packages with both Python and C
components.  It simply doesn't make sense for a package containing
primarily cross-platform files to be installed in platform-specific
locations simply because the infrastructure doesn't understand the
split.
  This is *not* an issue of disk space; I expect packages will appear
which include data as well as code; these packages should be able to
locate their associate data files using __path__ (or something
similar).  This makes a lot of sense for packages that perform
character-set recoding and the like, where a large number of
translation files may be carried along as part of the package.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	     <fdrake@acm.org>
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