On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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On Wed, 29/1/14, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:

> That package installation utilities should not dabble in sys.path manipulation.
> The import path is the user's responsibility.

User as in developer (rather than end user). Right, and distlib's wheel code
does no sys.path manipulation unless explicitly asked to.

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.

Ralf