On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 21:36 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: > Yes. Imagine that I create a library, which includes a firefox plugin > in python. I need to differentiate between what will end up in firefox > and the rest.
One thing I find noteworthy/horrifying about your *Firefox* plugin example is that this would mean that pip would have to install files in a directory completely unrelated to Python and one that is under the control of the package manager of the system. I guess a lot of distribution maintainers would curse the distutils developers if this becomes common practice for a lot of python packages. But this is more related to the fact that Python provides a second package manager that is *distinct* from the system one. It might be a good idea to display a big WARNING whenever somebody tries to install distributions (-> python, who came up with this terminology) within a path that is usually handled by the systems package manager. This would mean that the *default* install should be PEP 370 compliant or inside a virtualenv and that installing into system paths should be enabled explicitly. BTW - How are uninstalls of distributions (python) handled on which other distributions depend. Will all rdepends also be uninstalled? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland <wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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