On 17.03.2017 15:35, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 17 March 2017 at 19:58, Ronny Pfannschmidt > <opensou...@ronnypfannschmidt.de > <mailto:opensou...@ronnypfannschmidt.de>> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > while looking over the recent peps i noticed that we keep a few > inherent inefficiencies in where to find dist-info folders > > because they include version numbers, to get a distribution we > have to search for it > which is no longer really sensible as we no longer have > multi-version installation in any upcoming standard. > > Linux distros still use multi-version installation fairly regularly - > it's how services like EPEL are able to offer parallel installs of > frameworks and libraries that are also in base RHEL/CentOS without > breaking anything. > > The associated code to populate __main__.__requires__ and hence get > pkg_resources.require() to do the right thing isn't pretty, but it > *does* work. > as far as i understood, such dreaded code just fixes up sys.path, and thus the precedence will solve the issue dropping version strings from dist info does not prevent walking sys.path in order
so i don't think it will break anything. note that im not talking about dropping general multi version install or setuptools multi version install, im talking about removing the version number from the dist-info folder as for all installation schemes that use it, there is exactly one version in precedence order on sys.path Cheers, Ronny > While I expect tech like virtual environments, Software Collections, > FlatPak, Snappy, etc, to eventually get us to the point where even > Linux distros don't need parallel installs into the system > site-packages any more, we're still a *looong* way from it being > reasonable to assume that we can just drop parallel install support > from the Python packaging tools in general. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com <mailto:ncogh...@gmail.com> > | Brisbane, Australia
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