[Python-Dev] bdist_* to stdlib?

Jan Claeys lists at janc.be
Wed Feb 15 13:49:04 CET 2006


Op wo, 15-02-2006 te 14:00 +1300, schreef Greg Ewing:
> I'm disappointed that the various Linux distributions
> still don't seem to have caught onto the very simple
> idea of *not* scattering files all over the place when
> installing something.
> 
> MacOSX seems to be the only system so far that has got
> this right -- organising the system so that everything
> related to a given application or library can be kept
> under a single directory, clearly labelled with a
> version number. 

Those directories might be mounted on entirely different hardware (even
over a network), often with different characteristics (access speed,
writeability, etc.).


-- 
Jan Claeys



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