On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Lele Gaifax <l...@metapensiero.it> wrote: > Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> writes: > >> The problem is that site-packages doesn't have a predictable >> location, as demonstrated by the example given in this thread. On >> some systems, there are multiple directories containing custom >> modules. > > Sorry to insist (being dumb :), but couldn't buildout, that should know > the list of explicitly requested distributions, sort the paths giving > precedence to them?
It *could* sort them by the order it encountered them when it was computing the working set, however, if one of the requirements it finds is in a system directory, and it happens to come early, the system directory can have other distributions that shadow distributions found by buildout. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://zo.pe/Kqm _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig