> On 25 Oct 2016, at 10:36, Andrew Jaffe <a.h.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12/10/2016 21:02, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > > >> On 12 Oct 2016, at 21:09, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com > >> <mailto:gl...@twistedmatrix.com>> wrote: > >> > >>> On Oct 12, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Andrew Jaffe <a.h.ja...@gmail.com > >>> <mailto:a.h.ja...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Not me. If I understand correctly, Glyph -- who undoubtedly > >>> understand the situation better than I do -- still thinks that > >>> there's no actual bug here, since we shouldn't be using the framework > >>> build this way, but I'm not sure I understand/agree... > >> > >> To be honest, I'm not 100% sure this is a good idea either; it's just > >> that I know Donald Stufft has had a terrible time with Apple system > >> python for several years, and he regards this as a positive change. > >> From my personal perspective, there's a good case to be made that a > >> python in /System should just load from /System and one in /Library > >> should load only from /Library, similar to the way --prefix works on > >> "regular" UNIX. But, this is what we've got :). > > > > I don’t mind if the /System python looks in /Library for stuff that the > > user installed there, but I do consider it a bug that Apple installs > > system files in /Library because that affects all installations of > > Python 2.7. > > > > That’s what we get for playing nice with OSX conventions for where to > > locate files :-(. Luckily this isn’t a problem for Python3 as Apple > > doesn’t ship that (and I’d be surprised if they ever unless they start > > shipping Python3 code as part of the OS). > > Well, I did submit a radar, and although I'm not sure how far the NDA > extends, I hope I can say that, unfortunately, I got a "behaves as intended" > response…
That’s too bad. But I wouldn’t expect this to change anytime soon even if this would have been classified as a bug. Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG