[Distutils] "Python Package Management Sucks"

[Greg Ewing]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> Where data files are concerned, however, a developer should only need to 
> distinguish between read-only, read-write, and samples, because any 
> finer-grained distinction that relies on platform-specific concepts 
> (like locale directories) is probably going to be error-prone.

However, if we don't allow for such distinctions, then people
who e.g. are passionate about their locale files ending up
in the right place on Linux aren't going to be happy.

-- 
Greg