[Python-Dev] FHS compliance of Python installation

[James Y Knight]

On Jun 26, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:

> On 26.06.2010 22:30, C. Titus Brown wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:25:28PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>> On 25.06.2010 02:54, Ben Finney wrote:
>>>> James Y Knight<foom at fuhm.net>   writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Really, python should store the .py files in /usr/share/python/,  
>>>>> the
>>>>> .so files in /usr/lib/x86_64- linux-gnu/python2.5-debug/, and  
>>>>> the .pyc
>>>>> files in /var/lib/python2.5- debug. But python doesn't work like  
>>>>> that.
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> So who's going to draft the ???Filesystem Hierarchy Standard  
>>>> compliance???
>>>> PEP? :-)
>>>
>>> This has nothing to do with the FHS.  The FHS talks about data,  
>>> not code.
>>
>> Really?  It has some guidelines here for object files, etc., at  
>> least as
>> of 2004.
>>
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
>>
>> A quick scan suggests /usr/lib is the right place to look:
>>
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA
>
> agreed for object files, but
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA
> explicitely states "The /usr/share hierarchy is for all read-only  
> architecture independent *data* files".

I always figured the "read-only architecture independent" bit was the  
important part there, and "code is data". Emacs's el files go into / 
usr/share/emacs, for instance.

James