On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: >On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> We had a report in upstream Python from a user who was trying to find >> information about dist-packages. He did a Google search and didn't >> find any definitive official explanation of this Debuntuism. His >> suggestion was to add a note to the official Python documentation, >> but that doesn't seem quite right to me. >> >> I think it would be better to have official documentation on >> wiki.debian.org[1] about issues of interest to Python developers on >> Debian and Ubuntu. This would be a user-oriented set of pages, not >> a developer set of pages. Things like dist-packages and probably >> that python-setuptools gives you distribute would be two things to >> start with. I'm sure there are others. >> >> So: do you think this is a good idea? If so, where should this >> information go? I'm not sure Teams/PythonAppsPackagingTeam or >> Teams/PythonModulesTeam are really the best place for this. > >As a random bystander, yes, I think a page on wiki.d.o is great idea. >I think that if you're not sure where to put the page, just live the >wiki dream and put it in any random place. And then once the page gets >traffic and content people will figure out the *right* place for it. I like the JFDI attitude Asheesh! I've done a quick pass through * http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPython * http://wiki.debian.org/Python to clean things up a little, and to begin to document in the former a few deviations from upstream Python that a Debian user might encounter. At least that puts a stake in the ground. Let the wikiwars begin. -Barry
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