[Distutils] distil 0.1.1 released

[Donald Stufft]

On May 2, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 3 May 2013 09:08, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> >
> > On May 2, 2013, at 6:48 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> "pip --user" manipulates the per-user directories (and I believe I filed a ticket a while back suggesting it should migrate to the model distil now uses).
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Nick.
> >
> > I don't think it makes sense for pip to do this tbh.
> 
> Language level installers should leave "/usr" alone by default, as that part of the filesystem is the domain of system packages.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
Out of the three primary OSs only one of them has a concept of system packages. Regardless it's a major change in behavior and isn't  a clear cut right or wrong choice. It's going to need a stronger justification than that to break backwards compatibility in such a large way. 
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