On 12/10/2016 21:02, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >> On 12 Oct 2016, at 21:09, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com >> <mailto:gl...@twistedmatrix.com>> wrote: >> >>> On Oct 12, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Andrew Jaffe <a.h.ja...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:a.h.ja...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Not me. If I understand correctly, Glyph -- who undoubtedly >>> understand the situation better than I do -- still thinks that >>> there's no actual bug here, since we shouldn't be using the framework >>> build this way, but I'm not sure I understand/agree... >> >> To be honest, I'm not 100% sure this is a good idea either; it's just >> that I know Donald Stufft has had a terrible time with Apple system >> python for several years, and he regards this as a positive change. >> From my personal perspective, there's a good case to be made that a >> python in /System should just load from /System and one in /Library >> should load only from /Library, similar to the way --prefix works on >> "regular" UNIX. But, this is what we've got :). > > I don’t mind if the /System python looks in /Library for stuff that the > user installed there, but I do consider it a bug that Apple installs > system files in /Library because that affects all installations of > Python 2.7. > > That’s what we get for playing nice with OSX conventions for where to > locate files :-(. Luckily this isn’t a problem for Python3 as Apple > doesn’t ship that (and I’d be surprised if they ever unless they start > shipping Python3 code as part of the OS).
Well, I did submit a radar, and although I'm not sure how far the NDA extends, I hope I can say that, unfortunately, I got a "behaves as intended" response...
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