Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 04:48 PM 1/20/2009 -0700, zooko wrote:
So, this is just to let everyone know that any setuptools variant (including a future release of PJE's setuptools) that respects the PYTHONPATH will get at least two users!
As I've said before, if somebody creates a patch that addresses the use cases I pointed out, I'd be happy to accept it.
As I understand it, you require that a package installed by setuptools will be discovered before a package installed by distutils >in the same directory<. You do not require that a package installed by setuptools be discovered before a package that is earlier in sys.path. In that case, the .egg file should go on sys.path immediately before the directory where it is stored. This ensures that a setuptools .egg file will always be discovered before a distutils-installed package/module in the same directory, but it will not override packages/modules that occur earlier in sys.path. Do you have any other requirements? In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-November/010534.html , I described a change to zooko's patch that implements this behaviour. In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-November/010540.html , I address concerns about case-insensitive filesystems. So, taken together, does my suggestion meet your criteria for an acceptable patch? If so, - I will assemble it into a patch. - I will test it on platforms that I have access to, in ways that I know how to use setuptools. (For the record, that is "python setup.py install --home=/dir"; I never tried the automatic downloads.) If not, - what further requirements do you have? Mark S.