Hal Murray via devel <[email protected]>:
>
> Suppose a distro packages our stuff and it gets installed on a system.
> Python executables go into /usr/bin/ and libraries go into
> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ntp/
>
> So far so good.
>
> Now what happens if a developer does a site install. (Is that the right
> term?)
>
> Libraries get installed in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ntp/ and a
> .pth file gets setup to access them. The new libraries will get used by the
> system-installed executables.
>
> Should we be using "ntp-1.0" rather than "ntp"?
If you look in the library Python directories you will see that this is not
done. It would make writing imports a problem, as "ntp-1.0" is not parsed as
a single token in Python.
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