[Distutils] "Python Package Management Sucks"

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Dave Peterson wrote:
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Le mercredi 01 octobre 2008 à 14:39 -0400, Phillip J. Eby a écrit :
>>   
>>> To be clear, I mean here that a "file" (as opposed to a resource) is 
>>> something that the user is expected to be able to read or copy, or 
>>> modify.  (Whereas a resource is something that is entirely internal 
>>> to a library, and metadata is information *about* the library itself.)
>>>     
>>
>> It’s not as simple as that. Python is not the only thing out there, and
>> there are many times where your resources need to be shipped in existing
>> formats, in files that land at specific places. For example icons go
>> in /usr/share/icons, locale files in .mo format in /usr/share/locale,
>> etc.
>>   
> 
> Perhaps I'm putting words into PJE's mouth but it seems to me that if
> distributions want to put things in widely differing places from where
> the developer had them (in a single tree), then we're going to need a
> Python standard library API (implemented per platform/OS that defines
> those places!) for the code to find these resources/files.   Certainly
> the expectation shouldn't be on developers to have to handle all the
> possible different locations OSes are going to put things?
> 
The code should be general.  We just need to have a configuration file
that has the defaults for the OS-architecture the library is installed
on.  This shouldn't be much of a problem, distutils already holds
information like that (for instance the value of
distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib() and get_python_lib(1).)

-Toshio

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