-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/2014 01:18 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: >> Does anyone have any thoughts? > > Note that there is one situation where scripts for multiple Python > versions reside in the same directory: per-user site-packages (PEP > 370). If you install a package which has scripts and you don't write > versioned scripts, a second installation of that package (with a > different Python version) will cause the first script to be > overwritten. Much of the time this won't matter, but there might be > scenarios where it does. > > It may also give a problem when uninstalling, or when verifying the > installation (as the hash of an overwritten script may not match > what's expected, as per the original installation). > > To avoid overwriting, one would need to write versioned scripts > *only* :-)
Heh, sounds like a call for Underdog^W: $ python setup.py altinstall Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlM1vkAACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5CLACgodRwkXiS9irK/nP3dKPnlaXO 5GYAoKbJ4NiDFJdHNIWPozIpMzN6+z62 =q7Bh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
