[Python-Dev] Refactoring installation schemes (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Wed Oct 28 12:02:50 CET 2009

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Tarek Ziadé wrote:

Hello,

Since the addition of PEP 370, (per-user site packages), site.py and distutils/command/install.py are both providing the various installation directories for Python, depending on the system and the Python version. We have also started to discuss lately in various Mailing Lists the addition of new schemes for IronPython and Jython, meaning that we might add some more in both places. I would like to suggest a simplification by adding a dedicated module to manage these installation schemes in one single place in the stdlib. This new independant module would be used by site.py and distutils and would also make it easier for third party code to work with these schemes. Of course this new module would be rather simple and not add any new import statement to avoid any overhead when Python starts and loads site.py +1 Also +1. It seems like this would make things easier for the alternative implementations.

Michael

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