[petsc-dev] prefix install and module file

[Aron Ahmadia]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> I know this is the usual practice with Python packages, but what if
> install requires extra permissions?  It always seemed like an awkward
> design to me.
>

In 99.9% of Python builds, the final location of the built package is
irrelevant until install time, so it would largely be an unused
capability.  Let's not get an argument over whether this is good practice
or not, because it's definitely the accepted interface and is not going to
change in a way relevant to PETSc for the next 10 years, even if you could
get the commit with support for your request landed today in Python's
master branch.
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