[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

[Antoine Pitrou]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> I think is exchange actually a good reminder that the bar for acceptance
> of PEP 376 shouldn't be "Addresses every possible packaging issue we can
> come up with". That would be setting expectations far too high because
> packaging cross-platform is so messy.

+1

> For example, I quite like the concept behind the various ideas for
> "location" or "prefix" definitions either in the RECORD file itself or
> in a separate PREFIXES file, since such approaches feeds directly in to
> part b) above.

I don't understand the point. Since RECORD is specific to a particular machine
and installation (it is generated at install time), what would you gain by
adding a fake genericity to its entries?

Regards

Antoine.