[Distutils] Some clarifications and/or corrections to PEP 376

[Vinay Sajip]

If you move the files, other things can potentially break, too. For example, any scripts installed will have their shebangs adjusted to point to a particular interpreter, e.g. a venv's interpreter. If they get moved to a different location, the shebang lines may become invalid.

I don't believe that we have to support such moving of files outside of the knowledge of packaging tools.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip





>________________________________
> From: Kevin Horn <kevin.horn at gmail.com>
>To: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> 
>Sent: Monday, 31 December 2012, 19:19
>Subject: Re: [Distutils] Some clarifications and/or corrections to PEP 376
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>On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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I agree that PEP 376 isn't ideal in what it specifies in this area. The simplest
>>solution would surely be absolute paths only. What are the downsides apart from
>>the disk space used for the extra lengths of the filenames?
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>>Regards,
>>
>>Vinay Sajip
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>If you ever move the files, the absolute paths won't be valid any more.  It seems kind of unlikely that this would cause problems, but it might.
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>--
>Kevin Horn
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