On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 April 2015 at 20:27, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> a default mapping specifying the publisher's preference > > I didn't think the project author got to specify a preference. All > they say is what categories various files go into, and it's the > *installer* that maps them to locations. > Paul
If an application relied on relative paths from the root of a category, then it would probably include the same folder structure in its development checkout; setup.py would say "copy ./data into $datadir", modulo ignore patterns; it would be convenient if the mechanism pointing to $datadir pointed to ./data. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
