[Distutils] Packages that have problems being installed from wheels

[Donald Stufft]

> On Aug 27, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There are cases where projects do this in setup.py:
> 
> for scheme in INSTALL_SCHEMES.values():
>     scheme['data'] = scheme['purelib']
> 
> e.g.  https://github.com/celery/django-celery/blob/master/setup.py#L80 <https://github.com/celery/django-celery/blob/master/setup.py#L80>
> 
> so for the sdist install, data ends up relative to site-packages, whereas for the whl install, it ends up relative to sys.prefix

Oh right I forgot about that. Older versions of Django did it (not newer versions) and some stuff in the django ecosystem copied it.
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