On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Ben Finney wrote: >> >> On systems conforming to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, it's >> forbidden: programs go in a platform-specific location >> >> <URL:http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA>, >> while platform-independent data files go in a separate location >> >> <URL:http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA>. > > > But Python code itself is platform-independent, so it > should count as data for the purposes of the FHS, > shouldn't it?
I don't see why Python files should be treated any differently than other non-binary executables, e.g. shell scripts. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
