Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 04:48 PM 1/20/2009 -0700, zooko wrote:
So, this is just to let everyone know that any setuptools variant
(including a future release of PJE's setuptools) that respects the
PYTHONPATH will get at least two users!
As I've said before, if somebody creates a patch that addresses the
use cases I pointed out, I'd be happy to accept it.
As I understand it, you require that a package installed by setuptools
will be discovered before a package installed by distutils >in the same
directory<.
You do not require that a package installed by setuptools be discovered
before a package that is earlier in sys.path.
In that case, the .egg file should go on sys.path immediately before the
directory where it is stored. This ensures that a setuptools .egg file
will always be discovered before a distutils-installed package/module in
the same directory, but it will not override packages/modules that occur
earlier in sys.path.
Do you have any other requirements?
In
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-November/010534.html
, I described a change to zooko's patch that implements this behaviour.
In
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-November/010540.html
, I address concerns about case-insensitive filesystems.
So, taken together, does my suggestion meet your criteria for an
acceptable patch?
If so,
- I will assemble it into a patch.
- I will test it on platforms that I have access to, in ways that I know
how to use setuptools. (For the record, that is "python setup.py
install --home=/dir"; I never tried the automatic downloads.)
If not,
- what further requirements do you have?
Mark S.
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