On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:55:16 -0400 Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Sep 13, 2010, at 04:36 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > >On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:18:44 +0200 (CEST) > >barry.warsaw <python-check...@python.org> wrote: > >> > >> -For an arbitrary package `foo`, you would see these files when the > >> +For an arbitrary package `foo`, you might see these files when the > >> distribution package was installed:: > >> > >> - /usr/share/pyshared/foo.cpython-32m.so > >> - /usr/share/pyshared/foo.cpython-33m.so > >> + /usr/lib/python/foo.cpython-32m.so > >> + /usr/lib/python/foo.cpython-33m.so > > > >Are these the default paths? The PEP doesn't say how a distribution > >is supposed to choose its PEP 3149 filesystem layout (instead of > >/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages). > > Why should it? Distributions are going to make their own decisions > independent of the PEP. That's why s/would/might/ in the above change. I'm > open to suggestions for better ways to explain it.
I meant how these decisions are implemented. Is there a configure switch (there doesn't seem to be)? Does it require patching Python? Thanks Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
