[Distutils] PEP 376 - RECORD file / Data files + pip feedback ?

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:33 AM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 06:10 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
>
>> On 2010-02-05, at 4:57 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
>>
>> > At 04:49 PM 2/5/2010 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
>> >> Do we have a real-world example for installing uninstallable data files
>> >> outside sys.prefix?
>> >
>> > Scripts aren't always in sys.prefix,
>>
>> Scripts *usually* go to sys.prefix/bin (or sys.prefix/Scripts or
>> site.USER_BASE/Scripts). Are their packages that actually put them
>> elsewhere?
>
> It's not the package that determines installation locations, it's the user's
> command line options and configuration file settings that determine the
> locations for libraries, scripts, and data files.

IOW some paths in the PREFIXES file (or the RECORD file as long as we are able
to find-and-replace paths in there) *need* to be updated at
installation time no matter
what we decide to do here.

So, it seems to me that we need to keep unexpanded paths [1] in the RECORD file
and let the install command expand them using installation option .
But we have to avoid this expansion
when doing binary releases.

It seems feasible to me in both cases. And Wolojda could work later on
adding more paths definitions
and how to configure them through distutils options.

[1] See _INSTALL_SCHEME in
http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/sysconfig.py?view=markup
     that can be read through API (expanded or unexpanded)

Regards
Tarek

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