On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > Gary Poster wrote: >> >> On Aug 30, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Chris Withers wrote: >> >>> Gary Poster wrote: >>>>> >>>>> And "not supported"? osc.recipe.sysegg installs the specific eggs I >>>>> tell it to find (in the system python) as develop eggs. A nice trick that >>>>> works pretty well. >>>> >>>> ...Not sure what to tell you there. Jim has been clear from the >>>> beginning that system Pythons were not supported with buildout. >>> >>> This is somewhat puzzling. What makes a "system python" different from >>> any other sort of python? >> >> Distributions install packages there. > > Okay, but how is that any different from another source-compiled python in > which someone has easy_installed packages? > > "system python" sounds wrong here, it feels like what's meant is "any python > in which anything has been installed in site-packages", right?
It's not that "system python" is wrong, it just doesn't encompass all the things that are unsupported. You are correct in that a system Python is a "dirty" Python and dirty Python's may break buildout. -- Benji York _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
