[py-dev] move tests into their own directory ...

[Ian Bicking]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 05:15:38PM +0100, holger krekel wrote:
> Eventually i want to get rid of *.pyc files as well in 
> favour of installing them in a platform specific directory. 
> The basic idea here is to have completely clean 
> implementation directories and being able to use 
> the same py-lib checkout for multiple python versions 
> effectively (without recompiling all the time). This need
> became more apparent, now that we support C-translation 
> on the fly (e.g. py.magic.greenlet). 

Have you looked at the PEP about specifying a location for .pyc files?  It
lays out the mechanism and policy for it -- I can't remember if there was an
implementation as well (I think there was).  It ended up being dropped
because of a lack of interest, but everyone seemed positive about the
details it proposed.

  Ian