[Distutils] elements of setuptools/wheel/FHS file categories proposal

[Daniel Holth]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 April 2015 at 20:14, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Most importantly the RECORD just has nothing to do with the paths to
>> each file category, and it doesn't even exist in a development
>> checkout which has not been installed.
>
> Nor does the mapping file, surely? Or am I (still!) missing something?
> Paul

Not sure exactly how it would work but it might need to be created to
point to paths within the development checkout as part of "pip install
-e ." if the package relies on the feature.