[Python-Dev] Draft PEP: "Simplified Package Layout and Partitioning"
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 16:40:18 CEST 2011
I wonder if this fixes the long-standing issue in OS vendor's distributions. In
Fedora, for example, there is both arch-specific and non-arch directories:
/usr/lib/python2.7 + /usr/lib64/python2.7, for example. Pure python goes into
/usr/lib/python2.7, and code including binaries goes into /usr/lib64/python2.7.
But if a package has both, it all has to go into /usr/lib64/python2.7, because
the current loader can't find pieces in 2 different directories.
You can't have both /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/foo and
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/foo.
So if this PEP will allow pieces of foo to be found in 2 different places, that
would be helpful, IMO.
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