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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Sep 13 16:55:16 CEST 2010

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.

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