Re: Documenting Python Debuntuisms

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>]

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.

-- Asheesh.

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