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

[David Lyon]

On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:00:41 -0400, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> At 02:46 PM 7/9/2009 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
>> - - docs
>> - - i18n / locales
> 
> 
> On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:09 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
>> Unfortunately, the distutils don't currently have a way to specify  
>> these.
> 
> 
> There actually is a way to identify documentation files via setup.cfg,  
> but I don't know if the RPM packagers (or others) use that information.

Hi,

Perphaps the RPM packagers dont use it but the Python Package Manager
GUI (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythonpkgmgr) does.

With that, if there is any package documentation in a docs directory
the user can click on it and display it.

Regards

David