In article <4f54c6c3.9040...@netwok.org>, Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> wrote: > Le 03/03/2012 22:57, Ned Deily a écrit : > > The python.org OS X Pythons (and built-from-source framework builds) add > > the Apple-specific directory to the search path in order to allow > > sharing of installed third-party packages between the two. > The interesting thing to me here is that Ned’s decision to allow sharing > some installed distributions/packages on Mac OS X is (IIUC) > diametrically opposed to the one made by Canonical developers when they > invented the dist-packages directory for Debian and Ubuntu to prevent > breaking the system Python by installing a distribution/package with a > python.org/built-from-source Python installed under /usr/local.
Just to be clear, it wasn't my decision; this feature was added before I was a core developer. In any case, this is the opposite case: the system Python is not affected by this feature. It affects user-installed framework-build Pythons, such as those provided by python.org installers, allowing them to share distributions explicitly installed by the user with the system Pythons. It also does not share 3rd-party distributions included by Apple with the system Pythons. I'm +0 on it myself. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ 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
