On Jun 25, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: >> Placing .so files together does not simplify that install process in any >> way. You will still have to handle such packages in a special way. You >> must still compile the package multiple times for each relevant version >> of python (with special tagging that I imagine distutils can take care >> of) and, worse yet, you have created a more trick install than merely >> having multiple search paths (e.g., installing/uninstalling lxml for >> *one* version of python is actually more difficult in this scheme). > >This is meant to be used by distros in a programmatic fashion, so my >response is "so what?" Their package management system is going to >maintain the directory, not a person. You and I are not going to be >using this for anything. This is purely meant for Linux OS vendors >(maybe OS X) to manage their installs through their package software. >I honestly do not expect human beings to be mucking around with these >installs (and I suspect Barry doesn't either).
Spot on. -Barry
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