On Dec 09, 2010, at 12:35 AM, Alan Franzoni wrote: >On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> 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.
Indeed. I'm glad I'm not the 2.7 release manager. :) >> 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. Please do. Cheers, -Barry
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