I didn't mention (nor do I recall anyone mentioning) venvs. Jim
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Matt Joyce <m...@nycresistor.com> wrote: > venvs within venvs... terrifying concept. > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Jim Fulton <j...@jimfulton.info> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Isn't this a special case of needing . on sys.path when building a >>> package? Then the same version of setuptools that is being packaged builds >>> itself. >>> >> No. The issue for us it wasn't setuptools itself, but it's dependencies >> and those dependencies conflicted with dependencies of of packages we were >> installing *and* those packages importing these dependences (indirectly) in >> their setup scripts. Setup scripts that import the thing they're about to >> install, generally to get the version :(, is something I'd love to see go >> away. >> >> Jim >> >> -- >> Jim Fulton >> http://jimfulton.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >> >> > -- Jim Fulton http://jimfulton.info
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