Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view]

2009-07-19 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:08 PM, R. David Murray wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 at 16:07, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> David Lyon wrote: >>> >>> So it isn't clear why you want to remove the thing that you are >>> advocating works so great >> >> Jim was quoting someone *else* that had suggested remov

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view]

2009-07-19 Thread R. David Murray
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 at 16:07, Nick Coghlan wrote: David Lyon wrote: So it isn't clear why you want to remove the thing that you are advocating works so great Jim was quoting someone *else* that had suggested removing it (I'm not sure how serious the original suggestion actually was though)

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view]

2009-07-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
David Lyon wrote: > So it isn't clear why you want to remove the thing that you are > advocating works so great Jim was quoting someone *else* that had suggested removing it (I'm not sure how serious the original suggestion actually was though). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@

Re: [Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view]

2009-07-18 Thread P.J. Eby
At 04:07 PM 7/18/2009 -0400, Jim Jewett wrote: Michael Foord wrote: >> I agree. People with versioning issues *should* be using virtualenv. Tarek Ziadé replied (and several people later agreed) > Let's remove site-packages from Python then. What about those people *without* versioning issues?

[Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view]

2009-07-18 Thread Jim Jewett
Michael Foord wrote: >> I agree. People with versioning issues *should* be using virtualenv. Tarek Ziadé replied (and several people later agreed) > Let's remove site-packages from Python then. What about those people *without* versioning issues? I have no qualms suggesting that package manageme