[Distutils] Parallel installation of incompatible versions

PJ Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Mar 20 22:26:05 CET 2013


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Assuming we go this way, distros will presumably install system Python packages
> into the versioned layout and then symlink them appropriately from the
> "available by default" layout in site-packages.

If they're going to do that, then why not put the versioned layout
directly into site-packages in the first place?


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