[Python-Dev] PEP 427: pure / plat distinction

[Daniel Holth]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> How does the pure / plat distinction as outlined in PEP 427 cope with
> Debian's system of separating installed files into pyshared (for *.py
> and *.egg-info files) and pythonX.Y/dist-packages (for *.pyc and *.so
> files)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Antoine.

It is only there because distutils has a purelib/platlib distinction,
so the spec represents it. See
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/49de26395d1a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py#l85