Op zondag 13-01-2008 om 10:45 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Christian Heimes: > Gregory P. Smith wrote: > > My main suggestion was going to be the ability to turn it off as you already > > mentioned. However, please consider leaving it off by default to avoid > > problems for installed python scripts importing user supplied code. For > > shared hosting environments where this becomes really useful users can > > easily add the -s (or whatever flag is chosen) to their programs > > themselves. I don't know what that'd mean on windows where #! lines don't > > exist. Yet another file extension to imply the flag (yuck)? A .cmd wrapper > > script to run python with the flag (ugh)? > > So you prefer to make the per use site-package directory an opt-in > option? I prefer it as an opt-out option. It's enabled by default, > unless the user disables the feature with -s.
One possible issue with enabling it by default could be that less-experienced users can accidentally break the system configuration tools written in python used by several linux distros (Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora/Red Hat, ...). There should be a way for distro developers to make sure the users local 'site-packages' is *not* used when running those tools. I'd rather have to set/uncomment an environment variable on my system than having 100 "normal" users break their systems accidentally... ;-) -- Jan Claeys _______________________________________________ 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
