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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 16:53:21 CET 2012

On 16 March 2012 15:17, Lindberg, Van <Van.Lindberg at haynesboone.com> wrote:

This is not a "we should be consistent" argument - I know that would never fly. I do cross-platform dev all the time (develop on Windows and Mac, deploy on Linux) and so this bites me every single time I want to get a consistent layout between these three. That could be because I want my deployment environment to match my development environment(s), it could be because I need to introspect the layout to find some data, or because I want to check in an entire environment into source control.

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? Paul.

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