[Distutils] RECORD format in PEP 376

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On 2010-03-30, at 2:06 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'd like to make the RECORD file dead simple for PEP 376, and remove
>> all the relocatable work we've started in it, since it'll go in a
>> second
>> file. This would be done in a second phase, with the work done at Pycon.
> 
> Ok, Iv'e done this, according to the feedback in the other thread:
> 
> paths are now relative to sys.prefix,

Ok.

> and absolute if not under sys.prefix.

Sorry, I'm a little confused. So "/etc/myapp.conf" can be in RECORD? How would the second file (to be done in a second phase) be able to relocate this absolute path?

-srid