[Distutils] Packages that have problems being installed from wheels

[Joost Molenaar]

FWIW, I did whip up a test case just now, I put it up at github[1].
The second commit works correctly, but not the first or the third.

For Ansible and Fabric, IMO it's not necessary to put the files in /usr/share.
It's just that they need somewhere to put those things and be able to get at
them at runtime.

Question; would it help to use pkg_resources, or being able to specify locations
relative to the python interpreter prefix? Or to put it in some
'standard' directory
such as <name>.egg-info?

I run into this stuff in my own project as well. It annoys me to have to specify
the same data twice. :-) All I want to say is: these non-python are important
and I need to be able to find them somewhere at runtime. I don't really care
much where exactly they are.


Joost

[1] https://github.com/j0057/pydatafiles