[Distutils] Pre-pre-PEP: Requirements for the Python BUILDS Specification

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:57:56 +0200, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
>
>Case 2: twisted. Plugins, consisting of a few .py files, are shipped in
>a plugins/ subdirectory, and its content is dynamically added to
>sys.path after some sanity checks (which fail when you add namespace
>packages). The reason is to allow plugins for several incompatible
>Twisted versions to be installed in the *same* directory. When there are
>solutions as simple as versioning the plugin directory, I can’t
>understand how people can think of (and implement) such broken
>solutions.

Hi Josselin,

The facts you have presented above are not correct.

Jean-Paul