Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: >> For example, I quite like the concept behind the various ideas for >> "location" or "prefix" definitions either in the RECORD file itself or >> in a separate PREFIXES file, since such approaches feeds directly in to >> part b) above. > > I don't understand the point. Since RECORD is specific to a particular machine > and installation (it is generated at install time), what would you gain by > adding a fake genericity to its entries?
My understanding is that RECORD isn't generated at install time for the bdist_* commands -it's generated at the time the binary distribution is created. Hence the problems raised with the idea of having absolute paths in RECORD - if they were written directly into RECORD they would reflect where the files were when the distribution was created, not where they end up when it is installed. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
