[Python-Dev] Location of .so files (Was: Sharing expat instances) (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Dec 15 22:26:02 CET 2005

At 10:14 PM 12/15/2005 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Right; the question is why not just EXECPREFIX "/lib/python" VERSION > instead. What benefit does the separate directory offer?

I can only guess: it's primarily a matter of tidiness. > Note that the distutils, when installing a package containing C > extensions, will install to site-packages under sys.execprefix; it > does not separate the C extensions into special alternate library > directories. Yes, that's inconsistent. One way to make it consistent would be to honor lib-dynload; the other to get rid of lib-dynload. I cannot see how one of these option is better than the other (nor can I see what the relevance for the expat discussion is, so I changed the subject).

The relevance to "sharing expat instances" was Fredrik's original question about placement of the shared library for cElementTree. The question wasn't whether to get rid of lib-dynload in general, but whether there was any reason to do something other than just making ElementTree a distutils-installed package with the C extensions inside, the way normal distutils-installed packages are.

In any case the discussion is probably moot by now if ElementTree is now already built as part of the core.

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