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

[Daniel Holth]

He probably means straw man, or an implementation built only to facilitate
discussion.

I'd like to get it done before October.

Ideally the installs should still work regardless of exactly where each
category maps on disk.
On Apr 19, 2015 12:43 PM, "Vinay Sajip" <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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> 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
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> >> concerns for people interested in "everything in package directory", and
> >> make the discussion more focused.
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> Is "paperman" a Disney reference, or something else?
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> > That sounds good. One thing the wheel install command doesn't support
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> > 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 ...
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> Regards,
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> Vinay Sajip
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