At 01:35 PM 3/30/2011 -0400, Carl Meyer wrote:
So... it seems to me that we're likely to break _some_ third-party code using sys.prefix regardless of what we do here. My instinct says adding sys.virtual_prefix and leaving sys.prefix alone is the better approach, but I'm not very firmly entrenched in that position.
Looking at it from a software distribution POV, I would say that the virtual prefix is what it should point to, since that means things won't get installed to the wrong place.
(Of course, a configuration option could be used to override it, if really necessary.)
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