Re: [Distutils] Potential issue with multiple easy_install instances and single easy_install.pth

2008-10-19 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 04:44 PM 10/19/2008 -0700, Garrett Cooper (garrcoop) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Phillip J. Eby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:31 PM > To: Garrett Cooper (garrcoop); distutils-sig@python.org > Subject: Re: [Distutils] Potential issue with multiple

Re: [Distutils] Potential issue with multiple easy_install instances and single easy_install.pth

2008-10-19 Thread Garrett Cooper (garrcoop)
> -Original Message- > From: Phillip J. Eby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:31 PM > To: Garrett Cooper (garrcoop); distutils-sig@python.org > Subject: Re: [Distutils] Potential issue with multiple > easy_install instances and single easy_install.pth > > At 07

Re: [Distutils] Potential issue with multiple easy_install instances and single easy_install.pth

2008-10-19 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 07:14 PM 10/18/2008 -0700, Garrett Cooper (garrcoop) wrote: Hi Python folks, As part of a build system I work with, my group installs multiple Python packages via source using easy_install. One such issue I've seen before in the past is that when using multiple easy_install instances (

Re: [Distutils] Symlinks vs API -- question for developers

2008-10-19 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 10:32 AM 10/17/2008 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: So I have a question for all the developers on this list. Philip thinks that using symlinks will drive adoption better than an API to access package data. I think an API will have better adoption than a symlink hack. But the real question is