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Author	pitrou
Recipients	barry, martin.panter, mdk, pitrou, twouters, vstinner, xdegaye
Date	2018-01-20.13:25:19
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Le 20/01/2018 à 14:22, STINNER Victor a écrit : > > I don't see how adding an option to make one path configurable would make the build process more complicated. Do you think implementing and maintaing an option has no cost? > It seems like Xavier and Thomas do use Modules/Setup for their need, and for me it's strange to have to modify Modules/Setup (or Modules/Setup.dist) if it's tracked by Git. Distributors routinely modify files that are tracked by git. Modules/Setup doesn't have to be an exception. See Anaconda example I posted above. Also you can look up packaging by RedHat or any other distro.

Le 20/01/2018 à 14:22, STINNER Victor a écrit :
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> I don't see how adding an option to make one path configurable would make the build process more complicated.

Do you think implementing and maintaing an option has no cost?

> It seems like Xavier and Thomas do use Modules/Setup for their need, and for me it's strange to have to modify Modules/Setup (or Modules/Setup.dist) if it's tracked by Git.

Distributors routinely modify files that are tracked by git.
Modules/Setup doesn't have to be an exception.

See Anaconda example I posted above.  Also you can look up packaging by
RedHat or any other distro.

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