<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Vinay Sajip <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Wed, 29/1/14, Paul Moore <<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> That package installation utilities should not dabble in sys.path manipulation.<br>
> The import path is the user's responsibility.<br>
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</div>User as in developer (rather than end user). Right, and distlib's wheel code<br>
does no sys.path manipulation unless explicitly asked to.<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also end user. If, as a user, I want to use inplace builds and PYTHONPATH instead of virtualenvs for whatever reason, that should be supported. Setuptools inserting stuff to sys.path that come before PYTHONPATH entries is quite annoying.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ralf<br><br></div></div>