Re: Ideal directory structure?

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Umang <umang.me@gmail.com> writes:

> What I am talking about is the upstream tarball that, when extracted
> into a directory, can run without being installed using distutils.

If the package is designed to be installed by distutils, it seems obtuse
to expect it to work without using distutils. The point of distutils is
to provide a build process for preparing the package for use; before
that, it's not ready for use.

Perhaps I don't understand what you're asking well enough.

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