On 11 April 2016 at 14:46, Thomas Güttler <guettl...@thomas-guettler.de> wrote: > Am 11.04.2016 um 15:41 schrieb Nick Coghlan: >> >> On 11 April 2016 at 23:30, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <cont...@ionelmc.ro >> <mailto:cont...@ionelmc.ro>> wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com >> <mailto:p.f.mo...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> you wouldn't typically install >> each application in its own directory and add that directory to >> $PATH.], so why do the equivalent with sys.path? >> >> >> Funny that Nixos and Redhat's SCLs do exactly that with $PATH other >> vars:-) >> >> >> For SCLs, we don't really expect you to have dozens active at once, though >> - usually only 1 or 2 for any given process >> (language runtime + web server). >> >> In terms of this thread, though, the advice in the setuptools docs is >> indeed out of date > > > The docs are out of date: What is the next step? > > Just remove this sentence from the docs? > > Here is the current original: > > https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/master/docs/setuptools.txt#L1273
I guess a PR against the setuptools docs to suggest updated wording would be a good start. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
