Barry> We had a report in upstream Python from a user who was trying to Barry> find information about dist-packages. He did a Google search and Barry> didn't find any definitive official explanation of this Barry> Debuntuism. His suggestion was to add a note to the official Barry> Python documentation, but that doesn't seem quite right to me.
Yes, that is a common question people have when they want to know how exactly things are handled in Debian. It was the same for me so I created http://www.markus-gattol.name/ws/python.html#why_has_debian_dist-packages_directories Barry> I think it would be better to have official documentation on Barry> wiki.debian.org[1] about issues of interest to Python developers Barry> on Debian and Ubuntu. This would be a user-oriented set of Barry> pages, not a developer set of pages. Things like dist-packages Barry> and probably that python-setuptools gives you distribute would Barry> be two things to start with. I totally agree, those are the two things everybody who looks at how Debian does Python has several of his "ok, all right" moments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4oy5qvh....@wks.sunoano.org
