At 01:54 PM 9/21/2006 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: >On 9/21/06, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/21/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think one missing feature is a mechanism whereby you can say "THIS > > > package (gives top-level package name) lives HERE (gives filesystem > > > location of package)" without adding the parent of HERE to sys.path > > > for all module searches. I think Phillip Eby's egg system might > > > benefit from this. > > > > This is pretty easy to do with a custom importer on sys.meta_path. > > Getting the details right is a touch fiddly, but it's conceptually > > straightforward. > >Isn't the main problem how to specify a bunch of these in the >environment?
Yes, that's exactly the problem, assuming that by environment you mean the operating environment, as opposed to e.g. os.environ. (Environment variables are problematic for installation purposes, as on Unix-y systems there is no one obvious place to set them, and on Windows, the one obvious place is one that the user may have no permissions for!) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
