Michael Mulich <michael.mul...@gmail.com> added the comment: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:39 AM, higery <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: >> The develop command writes three pieces of information to the filesystem: >> 1. It calls upon the build action(s) to build the package relative to >> the package's root directory. >> 2. It calls the [build|install]_distinfo action to write the >> .dist-info metadata inside the build directory. (see also Issue 12279) >> 3. It adds the build directory's path to a .pth file. >> > > You are right, what you listed above are also the things done by the > 'develop' command of my current implementation. In addition, as I replied > earlier, we can also add a .distinfo-link file more than the .pth file.
I don't like the idea of a .distinfo-link file. Would it even be necessary if we already have a .pth entry? We should probably just use one of these files, either .distinfo-link or .pth. The .pth implementation has the least impact on code base and is already implemented. If we add support for a .distinfo-link, we would then need to modify database module to support that extension. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8668> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
