Ben Finney wrote:
Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'll also note that the require in setuptools-generated scripts causes
pretty frequent problems for people, all to support this multi-version
feature that no one really uses.
I agree heartily that it seems to cause more trouble than it's worth —
for my assessment of its worth, anyway. Is it true that “no-one” (to
some epsilon value) actually uses this feature?
There is one person on enthought-dev who does this for everything. He says it
keeps him honest about his dependencies. And consequently keeps us at Enthought
honest about ours.
I typically have multiple versions of things installed, and switch between them,
but I never use pkg_resources.require() to do so.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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