[Python-Dev] Python install layout and the PATH on win32 (original) (raw)

Lindberg, Van Van.Lindberg at haynesboone.com
Fri Mar 16 17:22:49 CET 2012

On 3/16/2012 10:53 AM, Paul Moore wrote:

The only way I can read this to make sense is that you somehow consider the Python installation as part of your development environment (you mentioned source control earlier in the thread - surely you don't manage your Python installation in source control - binaries, stdlib, etc?). I can't see why you would do this, and it certainly doesn't seem like a reasonable thing to do to me.

Can you clarify?

I don't check in the python binary itself, nor the stdlib, but I do check in the whole "installation", including the binaries directory.

I like having my deploy environment exactly match my develop environment. So if I do have an executable program, I put it in the binaries directory and check it in. My .hgignore includes "python", "python.exe", pip, easy_install, etc. - things that are "owned by the installation - but it includes everything else.

As for the stdlib, I don't check that in, so that portion of the proposal (standardize lib naming) is nice to have, but not essential to me.

For example, in the following environment:

env/ bin/ python pip easy_install my_script lib/ [stuff] data/ [stuff] src/ my_package

I would include bin/my_script, src/, and data/ in my version control. This breaks cross-platform development if "bin" is named "Scripts".

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