[Distutils] using bdist_wininst --install-script

[Stefan Seefeld]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 11:25 AM 1/27/2006 -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> 
>> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>
>> >> Unfortunately I don't think I can change the directory layout to
>> >> relocate the data files into a subdirectory of my toplevel python
>> >> package.
>> >
>> >
>> > Why not?
>>
>> because my python modules are part of a multi-language package
>> (to be more specific: a framework with multiple language bindings),
>> so a number of conventions are to be respected (such as
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/).
> 
> 
> """If an application uses a subdirectory, all architecture-dependent 
> data exclusively used by the application should be placed within that 
> subdirectory. For example, the perl5 subdirectory for Perl 5 modules and 
> libraries."""
> 
> Sounds to me like there are only two ways to interpret this statement.  
> One leads to the conclusion that Perl or Python modules must *not* live 
> under /usr/lib (since they are *not* architecture-dependent), or that 
> it's fine to place data files alongside modules.  Since the former 
> conclusion is not the practice, I interpret this to mean that the latter 
> applies.

Sorry, may be I didn't express myself very clearly; I'll try again.

I have a number of 'architecture-independent' files that are used by
different parts of the framework, such as python modules, C++ libraries
and applets, etc.
I can't see any good reason why my C++ code (which doesn't even know
that there are python modules as part of the same framework) should look
for its data in some obscure 'site-package' directory. :-)
The canonical way for such data files is still <prefix>/share.

Regards,
		Stefan