On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:57 AM, kiorky <kio...@cryptelium.net> wrote: > > This PEP proposes to keep just one format and make it the standard way to > install the metadata of a distribution : a distinct .egg-info directory > located > in the site-packages directory, containing the metadata. > > > There is something i don't understand there: > Does it imply that having no access on site-packages prevent you from > installing > third party libraries as a limited user?
As it s today, site-packages is just the default place, that is added and scan when Python starts. And you need root privileges to install packages there. There's another place where you can use when you are not root: per-user site packages. But those two place are just the places for "python-the-package-manager". > For example, on shared hosting where > you have limited privileges. Before, i could upload/build some libs and start > from there using, for exemple, buildout to scan that directory. > I make assumption that also the entry points are written along the metadata > dir. > That will say that even if i don't have access to the site-packages but i have > played with sys.path to include my distribution, i won't have its entry points > (as the egg-info is not there) ? PEP 376 comes with a set of tools that will allow you to install/uninstall distributions in an arbitrary site-packages folder, and play with them. So it basically makes almost no differences for tools like zc.buildout-the-package-manager that is tweaking sys.path in the generated scripts. I guess the simplest way will be to make the "eggs" directory a regular site-package like folder. It will even simplify the scripts because you will not have to add one entry per eggs there as it is today. What could be awesome is to see a branch of zc.buildout built against distribute 0.7 when it starts to be usable, to experiment this. zc.buildout is a package manager, so it makes it one of the target use case for PEP 376 and other changes we will provide in distribute. Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
