On Jan 30, 2:22 am, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > The “problem”, which I don't consider to be a problem per se, is one of > OS-wide policy, not “installers”. The policy is a matter of tradeoffs > across the system, and isn't “tucking the code away in a dark corner”.
Earlier mail: > If you want to blame anything for this (though I think it’s inaccurate > to frame it as a problem), the correct target of your accusation is the > fact that a filesystem path is the identifier for these modules that > will be used by programs to find them. I think this is a fairly accurate description of (one aspect of) the problem. If you dont see it as a problem how do you explain that google can search the World Wide Web better than we can search our individual hard disks? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list