At 07:39 AM 11/25/2008 +0100, Gael Varoquaux wrote:
I am not surprised you rejected it. You are not open to any suggestion, and consider only your usecases from your point of view.
On the contrary; it's users who *don't* control their systems whose usecase this particular feature supports. It has no personal value to me whatsoever. Until this feature was added to setuptools, the most frequent bug report for easy_install was, "I installed foobar 1.2 with easy_install but I'm still importing foobar 1.1... this program sucks." Personally, I'm just as bitter about people who insist on thinking that their use cases are the only ones that exist, and seem to wilfully ignore my repeated explanations of what groups of people will be hurt by their "fixes".