On 4 December 2013 23:25, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> == Regarding custom installation directories == >> >> This technically came up in the cobblerd thread (regarding installing >> scripts to /usr/sbin instead of /usr/bin), but I believe it may also >> be relevant to the problem of shipping external libraries inside >> wheels, static data files for applications, etc. >> >> It's a little underspecified in PEP 427, but the way the wheel format >> currently handles installation to paths other than purelib and platlib >> (or to install to both of those as part of the same wheel) is to use >> the sysconfig scheme names as subdirectories within the wheel's .data >> directory. This approach is great for making it easy to build >> well-behaved cross platform wheels that play nice with virtual >> environments, but allowing a "just put it here" escape clause could >> potentially be a useful approach for platform specific wheels >> (especially on *nix systems that use the Filesystem Hierarchy >> Standard). >> >> I've posted this idea to the metadata format issue tracker: >> https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi-metadata-formats/issue/13/add-a-new-subdirectory-to-allow-wheels-to > > Note the 'data' sysconfig directory is already just '/' or the root of > the virtualenv.
Ah, nice - I didn't grasp that from the sysconfig docs, and it's definitely not covered in PEP 427 (it currently glosses over the install scheme directories without even a reference to sysconfig) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
