On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Vinay Sajip <[email protected]>wrote:
> -------------------------------------------- > On Wed, 29/1/14, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That package installation utilities should not dabble in sys.path > manipulation. > > The import path is the user's responsibility. > > User as in developer (rather than end user). Right, and distlib's wheel > code > does no sys.path manipulation unless explicitly asked to. > Also end user. If, as a user, I want to use inplace builds and PYTHONPATH instead of virtualenvs for whatever reason, that should be supported. Setuptools inserting stuff to sys.path that come before PYTHONPATH entries is quite annoying. Ralf
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