[Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 376

[Ian Bicking]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:45 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

>  Examples under debian:
>>
>>    docutils/__init__.py          ->     located in
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/
>>    ../../../bin/rst2html.py       ->  located in /usr/local/bin
>>    /etc/whatever                  ->     located in /etc
>>
>
> I'm wondering if there's really any benefit to having
> ../../../bin/rst2html.py vs. /usr/local/bin/rst2html.py.  Was there a use
> case for that, or should we just go with relative paths ONLY for children of
> the libdir?
>
> (I only suggested this setup in order to preserve as much of the
> prefix-relativity proposal as possible, but I wasn't the one who proposed
> prefix-relativity so I don't recall what the use case is, and I don't even
> remember who proposed it.  I only ever had a usecase for libdir-relativity
> personally.)


Yes, in a virtualenv environment there will be ../../../bin/rst2html.py that
will still be under the (virtual) sys.prefix, and the whole bundle can be
usefully moved around.

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Ian Bicking  |  http://blog.ianbicking.org
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