At 04:07 PM 7/18/2009 -0400, Jim Jewett wrote:
Michael Foord wrote:
>> I agree. People with versioning issues *should* be using virtualenv.
Tarek Ziadé replied (and several people later agreed)
> Let's remove site-packages from Python then.
What about those people *without* versioning issues?
I have no qualms suggesting that package management programs avoid the
use of site-packages. Such programs do need to cater to edge cases.
But a single drop-it-in directory works great for the vast majority of
*my* needs; requiring me to drink the Kool-Aid from a specific package
management system just to get access to any add-ons -- even those I
wrote myself in pure python -- would be a huge step backwards.
IIUC, the new "user" directories supported by the 'site' module would
fill this purpose. That is, rather than having a site-wide packages
directory, there'd just be the user-specific package directories.
(That having been said, I'm not actually in favor of the idea.)
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