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 docs out of date

[Paul Moore]

On 11 April 2016 at 14:46, Thomas Güttler <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
> 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 indeed out of date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 The docs are out of date: What is the next step?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

I guess a PR against the setuptools docs to suggest updated wording
would be a good start.

Paul