Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > or if a user installs by dragging into > > site-packages instead of using an installer? > > Well... do people actually do this?
Why not? And it is also common to just set the PYTHONPATH environment variable instead of using setup.py install or copy the files to the lib/site-packages directory. I prefer it that way because it gives a clean separation between standard library files and application specific files. For example, if I want to use another Python version, I can just delete the python26 directory because I know it doesn't contain any application-specific code, just the standard library files. Considering the complexity, the risks and the benefit of the whole __pycache__ thingie, I'm -1... Henning _______________________________________________ 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
