# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-27 13:14:28 -0700:
> Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> The packaged installations like RPM and *BSD ports get around this
> >> by installing the TMDA modules directly into Python's sys.path
> >> (e.g, /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/TMDA/).
> >
> > why does TMDA itself not do it this way?
>
> Because upgrading/downgrading Python would break the TMDA
> installation. Python provides a system called `distutils' that manages
> the installation of custom modules, but unfortunately it provides no
> way to un-install, and has no concept of dependencies.
ah, ok then. consider the case closed.
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