[Python-Dev] "Absolute" paths in PEP 376 RECORD files

David Lyon david.lyon at preisshare.net
Fri Jul 10 01:29:32 CEST 2009


On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:53:13 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
wrote:
> There are probably all sorts of other useful distinctions which could be
> made. However, that would be a topic for a different PEP - as Tarek
> pointed out, improving distutils is such a huge can of worms that trying
> to tackle all the issues in a single PEP would most likely just result
> in developer burnout rather than improvement.

All it requires is a few word changes to the documentation to tell
programmers to put your documentation in "docs"...

If that is going to burn out the existing developers, it might
suggest that it is time to get some fresh developers onboard....

Thats not even a programmatic fix...

Regards

David




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