On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Daira Hopwood (formerly David-Sarah) <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is ticket #1258. It's a design flaw in setuptools and/or the > Python import mechanism; the cause is explained at > <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1246#comment:6> and > subsequent comments. Unfortunately it's rather difficult to fix, even > knowing the cause.
Tiny nitpick: this particular problem one isn't a design flaw of setuptools per se, but of the standard Python packaging system (its import mechanism and the standard distutils module). Setuptools wraps the standard Python packaging system, and adds its own design flaws, and as a consequence setuptools tends to get blamed for all of the resulting problems, even though it is inheriting many of them from the standard packaging system. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
