Sept. 22, 2005
6:16 p.m.
At 08:19 AM 9/22/2005 -0700, Rich Burridge wrote:
Hi,
Recently I asked about the inclusion of a "vendor-packages" directory for Python on the Python mailing list.
See the thread started at:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-September/300029.html
for the full reasoning behind this request, and the replies I received.
I'm with Terry on this, it needs a better rationale. Why can't you just add a .pth file to the site-packages directory? It seems that would address the issue nicely. (See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-site.html for documentation of the .pth mechanism, which would let you implement a separate vendor-packages directory without modifying Python, and would still allow local overrides of your vendor packages.)