[Zope3-dev] Re: More thoughts on packaging

[Fred Drake]

At 12:28 PM 2/17/04 +1100, Richard Jones wrote:
 > It has a data_files option (see section 3.5 of the distutils manual)
 > which lists data files to install in subdirs of the install prefix. So
 > in Roundup, I specify things like:
...
 >Or were you thinking of something else?

On Monday 16 February 2004 10:29 pm, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
 > Data files that need to be installed *in* the package directory, ala
 > ZConfig 'component.xml' files.
 >
 > Personally, I use the following subclass of install_data:
...
[...something that modifies install_data to install package data...]
...
 > There probably needs to be a different way to address this than the one
 > I'm using, though, because changing install_data to do what I do would
 > clearly break yours and other people's code who are using install_data
 > to install non-package files.

I think of what distutils currently does with data_files makes sense for 
what I'd call "application data," but not for data that's tightly bound to 
code (like ZConfig schema components).  (Yes, that leaves a very loose idea 
of what application data is, which is fine.)  I think distutils needs to 
grow a way to deal with package data; the application data support doesn't 
need to change (at least not as a side-effect of this).


  -Fred

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