On 5 May 2016 at 13:36, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's the kind of thing that you should expect. Someone will write > > setup.cfg: > > [bootstrap_requires] > pbr > > pip installs pbr in a directory that is added to PYTHONPATH for that build.
Ah, so we don't install into the environment, just to a temporary location which we add to PYTHONPATH. That is indeed a much better approach than what I assumed, as it avoids any messing with the user's actual environment. (We may need to be a bit more clever than just adding the temporary directory to PYTHONPATH, to ensure that what we install *overrides* anything in the user's environment, such as a newer version of setuptools, but that's just implementation details). Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
