[Distutils] distlib and data files => resources ?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Nov 20, 2012, at 04:51 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:

>Bento uses these categories by default and lets you define your own. If
>requested by the package, it writes the install-time prefixes to a
>per-package .py file with NAME="value" lines.

The key thing about the categories idea is that distro maintainers can define
the mappings that make sense for packages built and installed for their
policies.  E.g. most Linux distros would probably have some FHS mapping.  So
the package would only claim files are of a certain category, and where that
actually ends up depends on what environment the package is installed into,
e.g. Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, virtualenv, etc.

-Barry
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