[Distutils] Buildout release news

[Chris Withers]

Gary Poster wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
> 
>> Gary Poster wrote:
>>>> And "not supported"?  osc.recipe.sysegg installs the specific eggs I tell it to find (in the system python) as develop eggs.  A nice trick that works pretty well.
>>> ...Not sure what to tell you there.  Jim has been clear from the beginning that system Pythons were not supported  with buildout.  
>> This is somewhat puzzling. What makes a "system python" different from any other sort of python?
> 
> Distributions install packages there.

Okay, but how is that any different from another source-compiled python 
in which someone has easy_installed packages?

"system python" sounds wrong here, it feels like what's meant is "any 
python in which anything has been installed in site-packages", right?

Chris

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