On 2/6/07, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > The SA unit test suite artifically shoves "./lib" into sys.path at > startup so that running SA unit tests should generally always use the > local checkout regardless of setuptools getting in the way. > > if people are interested in more organized petitioning of PJE to > change his mind on this behavior, sign me up. generally people seem > to be unaware of it. I challenged him to name *any* scenario where an > administrator would want a local-environment-based PYTHONPATH to be > overridden by an application-wide configuration and he didnt reply to > that one. he sees it as a "if youre using .eggs, then you must accept > that PYTHONPATH only points to installation directories, not runtime > directories"...so basically breaking PYTHONPATH's documented behavior > into something repurposed is by design.
Sadly, this is the reason that I stopped using eggs. I just could not handle developing code while having them around. They work great for distributing code but they are a total pain in the butt to develop with IMHO. So if there is a pettition, I will sign up. -A --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
