PJ Eby <pje <at> telecommunity.com> writes:
As others have already mentioned, this is not a bug but a feature. Setuptools-generated scripts are linked to a specific version of the project, which means that you can install more than one version by renaming the scripts or installing the scripts to different directories.
While other strategies are definitely possible, distlib's approach is not backward-compatible, as it means installing new versions of a
Correct, because distlib does not support multiple installed versions of the same distribution, nor does it do the sys.path manipulations on the fly which have caused many people to have a problem with setuptools. Do people see this as a problem? I would have thought that venvs would allow people to deal with multiple versions in a less magical way. Regards, Vinay Sajip