Le lundi 22 octobre 2012 à 16:25 -0400, Daniel Holth a écrit : > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:39:07 -0400 > > Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > How does the pure / plat distinction as outlined in PEP 427 cope with > >> > Debian's system of separating installed files into pyshared (for *.py > >> > and *.egg-info files) and pythonX.Y/dist-packages (for *.pyc and *.so > >> > files)? > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > > >> > Antoine. > >> > >> It is only there because distutils has a purelib/platlib distinction, > >> so the spec represents it. See > >> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/49de26395d1a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py#l85 > > > > Ok, so does this mean Debian would have to build their own installer if > > they want to spread the wheel's contents as appropriate for their > > directory layout? > > Sorry if this is a lame observation, but Debian has already built > their own installer called dpkg.
Right :) > The Python-specific binary format will mainly be used to populate > virtualenvs. It may also turn out to be a convenient intermediate step > to build an .rpm or .deb but that is not the primary design goal. Well, I would expect people to also use it for regular installations, especially under Windows (thanks to the ABI tag for extension modules). Regards 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
