On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:38 PM, David Lyon wrote:
When I go into python on ubuntu I see there is /usr/local/pythonX.X/
lib/
site-packages and I'm wondering why the hubba setuptools/distutils
doesn't put packages there by default. That would solve a lot of
problems.
Just leave /usr/lib/pythonX.X//lib/site-packages to the O/S.
Uh guys, I'm not sure if anyone here noticed, but Debian and Ubuntu
have switched to install their distribution-supplied python libraries
into:
/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/lib/dist-packages
and distutils by default will install into
/usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages
starting with python 2.6.
See:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/02/msg00431.html
Since that email says "Discussed this with Barry Warsaw and Martin v.
Loewis", I'd assume this change would be more widely known in the
distutils/python-dev community, but apparently not??
James
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