[moving to disutils-sig where this belongs]
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
where type of problem == sandboxed environment, sure. How do you solve the
problem for system packagers?
What's to stop a system packager either just running the buildout on
install, or running the buildout at package build time and then just
dropping the resulting environment wherever they want to install
applications? Such a package would only be dependent on the right python
version at runtime...
If buildout creates sandboxed environments like virtualenv then everything
here applies:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
That's fine, buildout can use a shared eggs directory (it's how I run it
by default, to minimise the amount of downloading that goes on). In that
case, there would be no duplication of packages, the "installed app"
would just pick from a folder full of eggs that you could put wherever
your OS wants them...
In short, have multiple versions of a python package on the python path
at the same time is insane ;-)
Chris
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