Make check-outs more like release (Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3.0, and why ...

[Jim Fulton]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 12:23 PM 11/22/04 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> Lennart Regebro wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>>> - To rename src to lib/python in the repository
>>>
>>>
>>> Or rename lib/python to src. ;)
>>> I've never really liked the lib/python directory anyway.
>>
>>
>> Yeah but lib/python is from distutils, which we can't change.
> 
> 
> Are you sure?  I believe that virtually all distutils installation 
> directories are individually overrideable.  Heck, you can even send the 
> .py and .so/pyd files to separate directories, if you want.  (purelib 
> vs. platlib settings)

Let me put this another way.  lib/python is a pattern followed by distutils.
I see no good reason to be different.

Jim

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