At 01:05 PM 11/28/2006 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: >On 11/28/06, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's a related issue that may or may not be in scope for this > > thread. For distros like Gentoo or Ubuntu that rely heavily on their > > own system Python for the OS to work properly, I'm quite loathe to > > install Cheeseshop packages into the system site-packages. > >I wonder if would help if we were to add a vendor-packages directory >where distros can put their own selection of 3rd party stuff they >depend on, to be searched before site-packages, and a command-line >switch that ignores site-package but still searches vendor-package. >(-S would almost do it but probably suppresses too much.)
They could also use -S and then explicitly insert the vendor-packages directory into sys.path at the beginning of their scripts. And a .pth in site-packages could add vendor-packages at the *end* of sys.path, so that scripts not using -S would pick it up. This would be backward compatible except for the vendor scripts that want to use this approach. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
