[Distutils] PEP 376 - site-directories and site.addsitedir

[David Lyon]

On Thu, 14 May 2009 14:38:33 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>
wrote:
> When a program is launched, the site-packages places should be limited
to:
> 
> - the python site-packages (wether is central, wether it's local,
> using virtualenv)
> - the per user site-packages (PEP 370)
> - maybe a third place added manually using site.addsitedir()

Yes...

To make it even simpler again....

 1) project-packages (the current directory)
 
 2) user-packages

 3) site-packages

This would make things simpler and a lot faster.

btw, this is how I am building package installation into
my package manager gui.

Regards

David