[Distutils] Package installation strategy !

[Michel Sanner]

Hello,

I had a look at Python2.0 over the week end and I noticed that the installation
procedure creates a site-packages directory under $prefix but not under
$exec_prefix.

Is there a consensus about wher packages containing a mix of .py and .so files
should go ?

Should we ise the PyOpenGL strategy of extending the path with a sub-directory
for platform specific stuff at run time ? or should we place all .so files in
lib-dynload ? or should we have a site-packages under $exec_prefix and
duplicate the .py files (my concern here is not disk space but rather keeping
these files in sync!)

I know I have already brought this up ! so forgive me .... but I rather have a
mechanism allowing Python to search platform dependent extensions first (to get
fast versions if they are available) and then search platform independent
packages even if a package match has be found earlier.

Thanks for any thoughts/hints/advise on this

-Michel

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