On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > Why do we have symlinks in the first place? It's because Debian and Ubuntu > support multiple active versions of Python at the same time. Once Python 2 is > killed off and we're all using >= Python 3.2, we can get rid of even this > cruft. That's the major reason why I worked on PEPs 3147 and 3149.
It might be a long time indeed. Python 2.7 will probably keep up for several years. > I'm using zc.buildout 1.5.2 on Ubuntu 10.10 for Mailman 3. There is a known > bug related to namespace packages, which force you to use > include-site-packages=false in your buildout.cfg. Here's the bug report: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/zc.buildout/+bug/659231 > > Gary is assigned to the bug but there is as yet no resolution. It's the very same error and the same workaround is suggested, but I don't see enough proof that the reason behind such error lies within namespace_packages. I'll make some tests in the next days and I'll check whether it's the case. -- Alan Franzoni -- contact me at pub...@[mysurname].eu _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
