Wheel Specification

[FFY00]

Okay, I am creating this issue to keep track of undefined wheel behaviors, special setuptools handlings and relevant missing features from the wheel spec. The intent is to figure out all issues with the current wheel specification and maybe in the future draft a PEP.

Questions

• Is .data directly mapped to sysconfig?
  • Even on Windows?
    • Because then we would have a Linux style directory structure (share/something/mydata)

Missing features

• Support for sysconfdir
  • Holds application configuration data
  • Would also require it to be added in the sysconfig module
  • Usually mapped to /etc on Linux
• Custom platform-dependent paths
  • A valid use case would be for eg. install UDEV rules on Linux

cc @pradyunsg
Maybe you are interested.