[Distutils] Installing scripts

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> On Jul 2, 2004, at 1:44 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>
>>> On Jul 2, 2004, at 1:23 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> At 10:18 AM 7/2/04 -0700, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Just throwing this out here.. but how about NEVER removing 
>>>>>> extensions, but also (optionally) making symlinks to the filename 
>>>>>> sans extension of scripts if the platform+filesystem supports 
>>>>>> symlinks?  That would make most people happy, right?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> +1.  Sounds good to me.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How would this work with static distribution files ?
>>>>
>>>> (Not that I really care; the above is just an academic question :-)
>>>
>>> What is a static distribution file?
>>
>>
>> A .tar.gz file or a ZIP file. Anything that's not an installer
>> and doesn't need the 'python setup.py install' dance.
> 
> 
> Can't .tar.gz files contain symlinks?  Would you even use zip on a 
> platform that supported symlinks?

They can, but if you unzip them on platforms that don't
support symlinks you end up with empty files, so hard links
would probably result in more usable results (you end up with two
identical files).

In any case, I'm not really sure whether stripping extensions
really helps in any way. To me, removing the extension looks
like a purely cosmetic operation.

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