[Distutils] Add additional file categories for distutils, setuptools, wheel

[Vinay Sajip]

From: Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>
> On 19 April 2015 at 11:55, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can work on a "paperman" implementation of this on top of the "wheel"
>> installer for the end of this week. I think that would both alleviate some
>> concerns for people interested in "everything in package directory", and
>> make the discussion more focused.

Is "paperman" a Disney reference, or something else?

> That sounds good. One thing the wheel install command doesn't support

> is per-user installs. I'd appreciate seeing some details of how those
> would be handled - on the assumption that you don't want to deal with
> pip's source just yet, a rough spec would be fine for now.
I presume the way "wheel install" works is orthogonal to the scheme for handling different categories of data - "distil install", for example, does per-user installs by default. Are the proposed implementations just a proof of concept, to validate the usability of the implemented scheme? What is the envisaged timeline for proposing/agreeing specifications for how the file categories will work cross-platform? I'm bearing in mind that there might be other implementations of installers which would need to interoperate with any file category scheme ...

Regards,

Vinay Sajip