Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephen Waterbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My main motivation in proposing it is to give the user complete > > control over the Python environment that is in their path -- which > > is not easy to do on Debian/Ubuntu at the moment > > This is a laudable goal. It is met, for just about every other > user-configurable application, by allowing user-specific *overrides* > to the defaults to be set in configuration files.
I'm glad to see PEP 370 <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/> has been approved (2008-05-06) for Python 2.6 and Python 3.0. Abstract This PEP proposes a new a per user site-packages directory to allow users the local installation of Python packages in their home directory. This addresses the issue following exactly the principle I described above, so I heartily approve. -- \ "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to | `\ recognize a mistake when you make it again." -- Franklin P. | _o__) Jones | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
