[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - contents of RECORD file (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 21:35:10 CEST 2011


Looking at a RECORD file installed by pysetup (on 3.3 trunk, on Windows) all of the filenames seem to be absolute, even though the package is pure-Python and so everything is under site-packages. Looking at PEP 376, it looks like the paths should be relative to site-packages. Two questions:

  1. Am I reading this right? Is it a bug in pysetup?
  2. Does it matter? Are relative paths needed, or is it just nice to have?

Oh, and a third question - where is the best place to ask these questions? Now that packaging is in core, is python-dev OK? Or should I be asking on the distutils SIG or the packaging developers list?

Thanks, Paul.



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