On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:21:12AM +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Floris Bruynooghe >> <floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > An argument against a generated .py file is that this won't work for >> > single-module python distributions. But having a .cfg file or >> > something next to the module/package might defeat the point of trying >> > to help the FHS in violating it already. OTOH .egg-info does that too >> > and seems to be accepted currently. >> >> Well, the egg-info file is the static version of setup.py metadata in some >> way, >> I would find a new file redundant. >> >> I am really curious though, to see what the file would contain.. > > I imagine things like libdir, prefix, datadir, docdir and other things > copied from autoconf. Where the defaults would be something like: > > prefix = sys.prefix > libdir = sys.prefix/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/pkgname > datadir = sys.prefix/share/mypackage > docdir = sys.prefix/share/doc/mypackage >
David Cournapeau has sent me a first draft of a document, you might want to look at. http://wiki.python.org/moin/distutils-autoconf Might be a good basis for a common understanding -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
