[Python-Dev] bdist_* to stdlib?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 15, 2006, at 4:49 AM, Jan Claeys wrote:

> 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.).

Huh?  What does that have to do with anything?  I've never seen a  
system where /usr/include, /usr/lib, /usr/bin, etc. are not all on  
the same mount.  It's not really any different with OS X either.

-bob