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Message327408

Author	jdemeyer
Recipients	berker.peksag, docs@python, dstufft, eric.araujo, jdemeyer
Date	2018-10-09.14:24:44
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Just for fun, let's look at the history. That piece of documentation goes back to commit 632bda3aa06879396561dde5ed3d93ee8fb8900c Author: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> Date: Fri Mar 8 22:02:06 2002 +0000 Add more explanation of how data_files is used (esp. where the files end up in the installation and how that location is determined). I haven't tried to compile that Python version from 2002 but the distutils sources from that time look quite close to what they are today (scary, no?). So my gut feeling is that those docs were wrong even at the time that they were written.

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Just for fun, let's look at the history. That piece of documentation goes back to

commit 632bda3aa06879396561dde5ed3d93ee8fb8900c
Author: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date:   Fri Mar 8 22:02:06 2002 +0000

    Add more explanation of how data_files is used (esp. where the files end up
    in the installation and how that location is determined).

I haven't tried to compile that Python version from 2002 but the distutils sources from that time look quite close to what they are today (scary, no?). So my gut feeling is that those docs were wrong even at the time that they were written.

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