[Python-Dev] r84775 - peps/trunk/pep-3149.txt

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 13, 2010, at 05:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:55:16 -0400
>Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> On Sep 13, 2010, at 04:36 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> >> -    /usr/share/pyshared/foo.cpython-32m.so
>> >> -    /usr/share/pyshared/foo.cpython-33m.so
>> >> +    /usr/lib/python/foo.cpython-32m.so
>> >> +    /usr/lib/python/foo.cpython-33m.so
>> >
>> >Are these the default paths? The PEP doesn't say how a distribution
>> >is supposed to choose its PEP 3149 filesystem layout (instead of
>> >/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages).
>> 
>> Why should it?  Distributions are going to make their own decisions
>> independent of the PEP.  That's why s/would/might/ in the above
>> change.  I'm open to suggestions for better ways to explain it.
>
>I meant how these decisions are implemented. Is there a configure
>switch (there doesn't seem to be)? Does it require patching Python?

Ah, no.  Standard configure switches are used.  Debian (inherited by Ubuntu)
has a post-installation script for Python packages which create the .py
symlinks and do the byte-compilation.  The big win here is that much of this
can go away now (and in fact there are modifications to this post-installation
script already).

-Barry
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