On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 13:04 +0000, Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > +1 :-)
> But don't expect all package maintainers to suddenly classify their > datafiles properly. Last time this got discussed there was > significant opposition to this, maintainers did not see the point and > didn't want *any* change to their code at all unless it made *their* > lives easier. True, but we will see about that. > Personally I think the API you proposed is reasonable and would love > to see something like that in distutils so at least distros could > patch upstream (and hopefully get it accepted). Simplifying the work of distro maintainers easier is one of the main incentives I had in mind with this proposal. > The only issue I can see it that I'd like the API to retrieve the > data-files to work both when running from a development repository as > from an installed distribution. Making the API methods of the > Distribution class would force you to have an installed Distribution > on you PYTHONPATH I think (as would relying on a file in the egg-info > directory). Any ideas on how to implement this? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland <wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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