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

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:06 AM 11/23/04 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
>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.

Okay.  Technically, that's only one of nearly half a dozen distutils 
installation patterns, but I do see your point.