From: Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com>
> I had suggested writing the mapping next to one of the package's > installed .py files, but it sounds like all other commenters would > prefer a JSON file inside the .dist-info directory. Since it's installation metadata, .dist-info seems the right place for it. > I would prefer to keep the RECORD manifest of all installed files plus > hashes separate from the e.g. .dist-info/install_scheme.json, it > should not be necessary to parse the former just to figure out where > the config directory is. It's just a json.load - no specialised parsing code would seem to be required. Is your preference due to concerns about performance, aesthetics, backward compatibility or something else? Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
