[Python-Dev] r84775 - peps/trunk/pep-3149.txt (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Sep 13 17:04:52 CEST 2010

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:55:16 -0400 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Sep 13, 2010, at 04:36 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16🔞44 +0200 (CEST) >barry.warsaw <python-checkins at 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.

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