On 27 Sep 2014 14:19, "Chris Barker" <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
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> All this is also making me think that virtualenv and friends is the real solution to user installed packages anyway.

The main use case that doesn't cover is system scripting on Linux, where you may want access to all the platform specific libraries.

We're well and truly off topic for python-dev at this point, though...

Probably best to reboot the thread on distutils-sig, rather than continuing this one.

Cheers,
Nick.

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