Tarek Ziadé <tarek <at> ziade.org> writes: > Having a indirection like distutils2's resources allows the data files > to live alongside the code > in development and to be installed wherever that's desired by the > distro, without breaking > the code as long as it uses the indirection function to find back the file. > > Since the indirection is provided by a file that can be browsed in the > metadata directory, > it means anyone can get the file location by using the API we provided.
Yes, but it seems like you're assuming everything's always installed in a conventional way and not, say, deployed in a .zip. I'm not disputing what you said - get_file_path and get_resource_path are still there in distlib - but I'm not sure that there's *never* a case for data located in packages. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
