On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> The "src" convention is actually terrible when working with Python > code, since suddenly you can't experiment easily on a VCS checkout, you > have to do extra steps and/or write helper scripts for it. > > The fact that few Python projects, including amongst the most popular > projects, use that convention mean it's really not considered a good > practice, nor convenient. > Convenience over correctness - I can understand that. Using virtualenvs (or tox) is not always something people want. People get attached to certain workflows, that's fine with me. But lets not confuse that with what's right. Just because it's popular doesn't mean it anywhere close to correct. It means it works, once in a while people hit some pitfalls, suffer for it but continue the same way. The same people then complain about "terrible" packaging experience in Python. I think we should look at this more meticulously, not solely through the perspective of what's popular. Thanks, -- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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