PJ Eby <pje <at> telecommunity.com> writes: > As others have already mentioned, this is not a bug but a feature. > Setuptools-generated scripts are linked to a specific version of the > project, which means that you can install more than one version by > renaming the scripts or installing the scripts to different > directories. > > While other strategies are definitely possible, distlib's approach is > not backward-compatible, as it means installing new versions of a
Correct, because distlib does not support multiple installed versions of the same distribution, nor does it do the sys.path manipulations on the fly which have caused many people to have a problem with setuptools. Do people see this as a problem? I would have thought that venvs would allow people to deal with multiple versions in a less magical way. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
