On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:45 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> Examples under debian: >> >> docutils/__init__.py -> located in >> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ >> ../../../bin/rst2html.py -> located in /usr/local/bin >> /etc/whatever -> located in /etc >> > > I'm wondering if there's really any benefit to having > ../../../bin/rst2html.py vs. /usr/local/bin/rst2html.py. Was there a use > case for that, or should we just go with relative paths ONLY for children of > the libdir? > > (I only suggested this setup in order to preserve as much of the > prefix-relativity proposal as possible, but I wasn't the one who proposed > prefix-relativity so I don't recall what the use case is, and I don't even > remember who proposed it. I only ever had a usecase for libdir-relativity > personally.) Yes, in a virtualenv environment there will be ../../../bin/rst2html.py that will still be under the (virtual) sys.prefix, and the whole bundle can be usefully moved around. -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org
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