[Python-ideas] Changing the default install location, script versioning (Packages and PEP 370)

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Antoine Pitrou<solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Jesse Noller <jnoller at ...> writes:
>>
>> I'm not dead yet! /monty python
>>
>> I want to point out that the ./local/bin directory isn't the only
>> thing unversioned - any docs/ which get laid down by a package are
>> also being plopped in .local/docs - not .local/version/docs.
>
> Is it a problem?
> I understand the docs could be versioned by package version, but why should they
> be versioned by interpreter version?
>

Because they're artifacts of a package installed into a version of the
interpreter. Sure, "proper docs" will include a Python2.x section
*and* the 3.x section; then again, why not only package the 3.x docs
with the 3.x package?