On 3/14/2012 10:56 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
Are you talking about 'install for all users' versus 'install for this
user only'? I have always done the former as I see no point to the
latter on my machine, even if another family member has an account.
Yes, but some people are on corporate machines that only allow "install
for this user" installations.
I am fine with keeping the distinction between
> base installs (no py_version)
I have no idea what this means. As far as I can remember, each
installation of Python x.y (back to 1.3 for me, on DOS) has gone into a
pythonxy (no dot) directory, with subdirectories much as Jim J. described.
I am referring to the currently-existing install schemes 'nt' ('install
for all users') and 'nt-user' ('install for this user only'). The
*current* layouts are described at
http://hg.python.org/distutils2/file/2cec52b682a9/distutils2/_backport/sysconfig.cfg:
L57-65:
[nt]
stdlib = {base}/Lib
platstdlib = {base}/Lib
purelib = {base}/Lib/site-packages
platlib = {base}/Lib/site-packages
include = {base}/Include
platinclude = {base}/Include
scripts = {base}/Scripts
data = {base}
L86-93:
[nt_user]
stdlib = {userbase}/Python{py_version_nodot}
platstdlib = {userbase}/Python{py_version_nodot}
purelib = {userbase}/Python{py_version_nodot}/site-packages
platlib = {userbase}/Python{py_version_nodot}/site-packages
include = {userbase}/Python{py_version_nodot}/Include
scripts = {userbase}/Scripts
data = {userbase}
I am proposing that these change to:
[nt]
stdlib = {base}/lib
platstdlib = {base}/lib
purelib = {base}/lib/site-packages
platlib = {base}/lib/site-packages
include = {base}/include
platinclude = {base}/include
scripts = {base}/bin
data = {base}
[nt_user]
stdlib = {userbase}/python{py_version_short}
platstdlib = {userbase}/python{py_version_short}
purelib = {userbase}/python{py_version_short}/site-packages
platlib = {userbase}/python{py_version_short}/site-packages
include = {userbase}/python{py_version_short}/include
scripts = {userbase}/bin
data = {userbase}
All the other diuectories that Jim talked about would not be affected by
this proposal.
Does this make it clearer?
Thanks,
Van
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