2009/7/9 Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com>: > Yes. I'm just trying to point out that the information in the PEP is > applicable only to the set of installers that want to work together in some > integrated way. It doesn't apply to all installers, and I think that's the > bigger problem.
Interoperability standards are only as useful as the number of applications that conform to them. The set of installers that will *not* provide PEP 376 compatible metadata is an important measure of the usefulness of the PEP. Some metadata (the INSTALLER file and the proposed PREFIXES file) must be created by the installer for the PEP 376 APIs to work. Simple cases (relocatable packages with all package data maintained inside the package directory) will work fine even without installer co-operation, as long as the installer copies the whole structure unchanged. But: - some cases are not simple, and it's not clear to me how useful "nearly always accurate" data will be - I understand that some packagers deliberately pick apart Python distributions to conform to OS filesystem layout standards Paul. _______________________________________________ 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
