[Distutils] For maximum performance, ... docs out of date

Thomas Güttler guettliml at thomas-guettler.de
Mon Apr 11 09:46:22 EDT 2016



Am 11.04.2016 um 15:41 schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> On 11 April 2016 at 23:30, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <contact at ionelmc.ro <mailto:contact at ionelmc.ro>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com <mailto:p.f.moore at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         you wouldn't typically install
>         each application in its own directory and add that directory to
>         $PATH.], so why do the equivalent with sys.path?
>
>
>     ​Funny that Nixos and Redhat's SCLs​ do exactly that with $PATH other vars:-)
>
>
> For SCLs, we don't really expect you to have dozens active at once, though - usually only 1 or 2 for any given process
> (language runtime + web server).
>
> In terms of this thread, though, the advice in the setuptools docs is indeed out of date

The docs are out of date: What is the next step?

Just remove this sentence from the docs?

Here is the current original:

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/master/docs/setuptools.txt#L1273

Regards,
  Thomas Güttler

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