[Distutils] Clarifying the meaning of the sysconfig "data" directory

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sun Dec 8 09:52:59 CET 2013


On 8 December 2013 02:01, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe what we want is a sysconfig path "root" that explicitly encodes
>> the filesystem root.
>
> s/filesystem root/installation root/
>
> I'm assuming that's what you meant, since you'd know better than I do
> that "filesystem root" isn't a particularly useful concept on Windows
> :)

I actually did mean "filesystem root" - precisely to make the point
that it isn't useful on Windows. The installation root is already
covered by "data". Your suggestion of "fhs" makes that even more
explicit.

Paul


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