On Jul 22, 2009, at 4:49 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Debian has a long history of doing this different, so it's not much of a surprise. They also apply such changes to Python packages. However, all of this is non-standard and will cause problems with tools that rely on the standard site-packages/ location. Such changes should be discouraged.
And yet, the change seems to have some strong reasoning, solves the problem discussed in this thread, and was apparently discussed and approved of by some core python developers before being implemented. It seems a bit foolish to me to thus just dismiss it as "evil debian being different"...
If anything it seems like it's a failure of the Python project to make easily deployable software, compounded with a failure of communication within the python community.
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