[Python-Dev] PEP 427: pure / plat distinction (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Oct 22 22:13:39 CEST 2012

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:39:07 -0400 Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > How does the pure / plat distinction as outlined in PEP 427 cope with > Debian's system of separating installed files into pyshared (for *.py > and *.egg-info files) and pythonX.Y/dist-packages (for *.pyc and *.so > files)? > > Thanks, > > Antoine.

It is only there because distutils has a purelib/platlib distinction, so the spec represents it. See http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/49de26395d1a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py#l85

Ok, so does this mean Debian would have to build their own installer if they want to spread the wheel's contents as appropriate for their directory layout?

Regards

Antoine.

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