On Oct 30, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > Feature. It can do multi-version installs, but only if explicitly > specified. > > The problem is that 1.2.1 is already on sys.path, so setuptools gives > up because it doesn't know if something is using Gnosis-Utils or not. > If the directory *containing* the egg was on sys.path, then it would > pick the exact version... but then you must *always* require it before > it is imported.
Ah, terrific. -m allows this feature, although i wonder why -m then makes regular "import", for those scripts that just want the default version, not useable (but i have not yet searched for this answer, so feel free to ignore). Too bad a high-profile article on IBM got the details on this inaccurately. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
