From: Daniel Holth <[email protected]>


> pkg_resources without declaring that dependency. That is why I
> proposed writing the install paths to an importable file in the
> package's namespace on request without a new API. This would also


Not sure what you mean by this, but I hope by "importable" you don't mean 
Python source. JSON sounds like a better option. We currently write all the 
installed files as a simple text file (RECORD), but there's no reason it 
couldn't be a JSON file which held the mappings of category -> path used during 
installation, as well as the list of files installed. When you say "package's 
namespace", are you referring to the .dist-info directory, or something else? 
Those two words are fraught with ambiguity.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip
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