[Distutils] "Python Package Management Sucks"

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Oct 2 13:29:03 CEST 2008


Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 13:25 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven a
écrit :
> -On [20081002 13:20], Josselin Mouette (joss at debian.org) wrote:
> >Locale data should be shipped in standard form, in /usr/share/locale.
> >Again, Python is not the only thing you need to think of.
> 
> Linux is not the only thing to think of by stating /usr/share/locale. :P
> I guess ${PREFIX}/share/locale would be better. But still, for .mo files I
> seriously do not see a problem if they're within an egg or something
> similar. Imagine also the possibility of providing specific language
> translations for a project as an egg (kind of like a plugin).

There’s definitely no problem with shipping them in an egg, as long as
it is possible to ship them at standard locations.

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