-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/20/2012 10:21 PM, PJ Eby wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Ronald Oussoren > <ronaldousso...@mac.com>wrote: > >> >> On 19 Nov, 2012, at 20:26, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Data files should never be installed to package directories. But >>> I'm >> not aware of any good reason why resource files should ever be >> installed anywhere *else*. >> >> To be (too) snarky: because the FHS says so. >> > Less snarky, Linux distributors try to keep simular files together > (for >> example storing all gettext translations together in >> /usr/share/locale). To play nice in such an enviroment Python >> packages would have to install resource files outside of the python >> package and into the FHS specified directory structure. > > > Consider the example of a web page template containing embedded > Python code. Is that a data file containing code, or a code file > containing data? Where does the FHS say it goes? > > What if it's not embedded Python, but an embedded DSL interpreted by > the package it goes with? > > What if it's not a page template, but a precompiled SQL grammar? > (Such as was distributed with the "gadfly" package, many a year ago.) > > These are the kind of files I mean by "resources". If somebody wants > to support gettext or similar localization, then obviously they should > declare the files data -- or better yet, as part of an explicit > localization category. > > The whole point of "resources" is that it's a catch-all for static > data that's more convenient to treat as a standalone source file than > to inline as a huge triple-quoted constant in a .py file. ;-)
Exactly: any dsitribution-packaer who tries to move such files out of the package due to some misunderstood FHS-driven theory about such files is just breaking the software to no purpose. - -1 to enabling such misuse, as distinct from "data" / "config" files which fall into other categories (documentation, example configs, etc.). Such files are not "resources" in any sensible use of the term. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCsTmsACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4uBgCgnRRaQA0AjzaNOqPomSHOC7+s 19cAoMUl4FwpW6TDMAqSjG1Cj3bYx6bv =w8D1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
