How to find where data files are installed for my Python program
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Oct 27 03:58:59 EDT 2013
Ben Finney wrote:
> On systems conforming to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, it's
> forbidden: programs go in a platform-specific location
> <URL:http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA>,
> while platform-independent data files go in a separate location
> <URL:http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA>.
But Python code itself is platform-independent, so it
should count as data for the purposes of the FHS,
shouldn't it?
--
Greg
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