[Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 376

[P.J. Eby]

At 12:51 PM 4/7/2010 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:45 PM, P.J. Eby 
><<mailto:pje at telecommunity.com>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. Â 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. Â 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.

Ah, ok.  Good!  +1, then.