On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:34:07 -0400, "P.J. Eby" <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: >>An application needs to know what directory it has been installed >>in and where it can find configuration files and so forth. > > It appears I was unclear: it is not the application's business to > *decide* what the installation directory is.
I never said it was... >> > nor is it something that should be specified in setup.py or >> > setup.cfg, as that is 100% the user's business to choose, and the >> > platform tools to supply a default for. >> >>Well, it certainly doesn't work that way at the moment. > > Eh? It's *possible* to specify it in those places now, but > well-behaved packages never do. Not on windows, outside of the c:\pythonXY directory. Define well behaved.. If you are saying that Python observes all microsofts recommendations under windows and is "well-behaved" I think I'd have some comments about that. "Well behaved" is installing a python program to "Program Files" but distutils doesn't allow this to my knowledge. > If platform/pyver-specific dependencies are all that's required, > there's a way to specify them using setuptools' existing dependency > syntax, using "extras". But you have told everybody that setuptools is dead... and you don't have any plans to work on it any more.. > In other words, there's already a framework for actually > *implementing* conditional dependencies, it just needs to have a > convention for naming of "extras" to allow it to work. And in the > absence of tool support, it could even be implemented manually, by > adding the necessary extra names on the command line of existing > installation tools. Sure. That's what's being discussed. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
