[Distutils] [Distribute] What versions should we support?

[Tres Seaver]

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Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Tres Seaver<tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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>> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
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>>> When Python 2.7/3.2 are out, I am planning to release a standalone
>>> version of Distutils that will work starting at 2.5.
>>> Which means that the 0.7 series of Distribute will be able to work with it.
>> I still haven't heard a clear story about how you think people will be
>> able to install that standalone version without manually hacking up
>> their /usr/lib/python2.x/ directories.
> 
> With a special .pth file that superseds the stdlib distutils path in sys.path
> you can try it out by installing the nighlty build
> 
> http://nightly.ziade.org/

The README.txt in that package says::

 Installation
 ============

 To install it, just run::

     $ python setup.py install

 Then remove or rename the Distutils version located in your Python
 library directory.

That is *exactly* the kind of thing I was referring to as "manually
hacking up their /usr/lib/python2.x/ directories":  nobody will use the
standalone version without a better story than that (and I wouldn't
blame them).

If you have another plan in mind that allows tweaking things via a .pth
file, then you need to document it clearly:  I don't have enough brain
cells to rub together figuring that out myself (if it is even possible).


Tres.
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