On 7 December 2013 11:14, Michael Jansen <i...@michael-jansen.biz> wrote: > And then setting those variables in cross platform compatible ways.
Well, OK, but there may not *be* a "cross platform compatible" answer - we could set sbin to the same as bin on Windows, but www is probably inside the Apache installation (or somewhere arbitrary if the user has configured things to non-default) on Windows, so there's no way Python can know this. The whole point here is that FHS gives you a way of naming things consistently, on a platform where absolue paths are the norm. On Windows, *relative* paths are the norm (often relative to the application installation directory by default) and applications' files are isolated from each other much more strongly. FHS doesn't really make sense in such an environment. But as I say, I don't have a problem with what you're doing as a POSIX solution. I just don't think we want to get into the huge cross-platform filesystem layout issue here. Just accept that it's not Windows-compatible and move on :-) Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
