Re: Documenting Python Debuntuisms
Barry> We had a report in upstream Python from a user who was trying to
Barry> find information about dist-packages. He did a Google search and
Barry> didn't find any definitive official explanation of this
Barry> Debuntuism. His suggestion was to add a note to the official
Barry> Python documentation, but that doesn't seem quite right to me.
Yes, that is a common question people have when they want to know how
exactly things are handled in Debian. It was the same for me so I
created
http://www.markus-gattol.name/ws/python.html#why_has_debian_dist-packages_directories
Barry> I think it would be better to have official documentation on
Barry> wiki.debian.org[1] about issues of interest to Python developers
Barry> on Debian and Ubuntu. This would be a user-oriented set of
Barry> pages, not a developer set of pages. Things like dist-packages
Barry> and probably that python-setuptools gives you distribute would
Barry> be two things to start with.
I totally agree, those are the two things everybody who looks at how
Debian does Python has several of his "ok, all right" moments.
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