Re: [Distutils] slow Python startup with a couple of easy_install-ed packages

2007-06-17 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 08:01 PM 6/17/2007 +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: >Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>Meanwhile, in setuptools 0.7 there will be a completely different >>way of managing installation locations, and it will not depend on >>.pth files or on putting eggs first. Instead, it will use direct >>old-s

Re: [Distutils] slow Python startup with a couple of easy_install-ed packages

2007-06-17 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Meanwhile, in setuptools 0.7 there will be a completely different way of > managing installation locations, and it will not depend on .pth files or on > putting eggs first. Instead, it will use direct old-style installation, > combined with .egg-info directories for meta

Re: [Distutils] slow Python startup with a couple of easy_install-ed packages

2007-02-23 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 08:44 PM 2/23/2007 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: >Well, easy_install makes it snap to install packages that I may or may >not use. Nothing is easier than to 'easy_install >something-recently-announced', >even if I never will use it (after a preliminary look). Often I forget to >uninstall the pac

[Distutils] slow Python startup with a couple of easy_install-ed packages

2007-02-23 Thread Thomas Heller
Well, easy_install makes it snap to install packages that I may or may not use. Nothing is easier than to 'easy_install something-recently-announced', even if I never will use it (after a preliminary look). Often I forget to uninstall the packages again, or promise to do that later. Disk space is