[Éric Araujo, 2011-08-23] > Le 22/08/2011 12:43, Piotr Ożarowski a écrit : > > FormAlchemy (as way too many other Python modules) adds data files > > (images, templates, locales, etc.) to site-packages directory, we try to > > move them to the right location whenever possible, > > Could you point me to more info about this? I haven’t read all of the > Debian Policy yet, just the FHS and the Debian Python Policy
How about distutils' --install-data? Providing such option and later ignoring users who want to change the default value is not nice (yeah, I know it's hard to support it as the directory is not recorded anywhere, "packaging" module should make it easier, though). Anyway, we keep translations in /usr/share/locale/ and that's where Debian administrators expect them to be. We keep other shareable files in /usr/share and so on. Dealing with all these symlinks is also messy if you support more than one Python version. (see I didn't even mention ugly __file__¹ or pkg_resources... ups ;) > (which > states things without giving rationale, unfortunately), so I’d please file bugs against python package, without them chances that it will be improved are low... [¹] http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/01/msg00172.html -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645 -- 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/20110823093236.gt16...@piotro.eu
