On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> > Hello, > > I've just discovered there is a little-known feature in site.py: if a > $PREFIX/lib/site-python exists (e.g. /usr/lib/site-python), it is added > to sys.path in addition to the versioned site-packages. But only under > Unix ("if os.sep == '/'"). > > Has anyone seen that feature in the real world? Debian doesn't use > site-python, but its own /usr/share/pyshared. > > For the record, it was added in b53347c8260e with the following commit > message: > > user: Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> > date: Wed Sep 03 21:41:30 1997 +0000 > files: Lib/site.py > description: > Give in to Mike Meyer -- add *both* lib/python1.5/packages and > lib/site-python to the path (if they exist). This is a reasonable > compromise. > Wow, a blast from the past. I don't see python-dev archives from those times but I'm sure there must have been discussion about whether site-packages were shareable between Python versions. I think history has shown that it's better to install them per version, so I suggest that we remove that feature. (People who want it can always patch up their own $PYTHONPATH.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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