[Python-Dev] Refactoring installation schemes

[ssteinerX@gmail.com]

On Oct 28, 2009, at 7:02 AM, Michael Foord wrote:

> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Since the addition of PEP 370, (per-user site packages), site.py and
>>> distutils/command/install.py are *both* providing the various
>>> installation directories for Python,
>>> depending on the system and the Python version.
>>>
>>> We have also started to discuss lately in various Mailing Lists the
>>> addition of new schemes for IronPython and Jython, meaning that we
>>> might add some more in both places.
>>>
>>> I would like to suggest a simplification by adding a dedicated  
>>> module
>>> to manage these installation schemes in one single place in the
>>> stdlib.
>>>
>>> This new independant module would be used by site.py and distutils  
>>> and
>>> would also make it easier for third party code to work with these
>>> schemes.
>>> Of course this new module would be rather simple and not add any new
>>> import statement to avoid any overhead when Python starts and loads
>>> site.py

+1

This would help unpollute ~/ which is getting quite full of 'stuff.'

S