[IPython-dev] iPython binary wheels for OS-X

[MinRK]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <
chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Dec 9, 2013, at 11:58 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Whoops, this sounds pretty significant. Would it be OK if I reposted
> > it on distutils-sig? I don't think it's something we can fix
> > particularly easily
>
> Or should fix -- people shouldn't be messing with the system python anyway,
>

This is what's so frustrating - the System Python isn't touched at all,
nothing is "messed with", unless by "messed with", you just mean "used at
all". No problems are caused by a `--user` install, nor, for that matter,
are any caused by a system-wide install in site-packages, though I could
imagine it is feasible there. It seems absurd that Python's packaging and
import system is so bad that installing a duplicate Python is the only
answer to *completely nondestructive installation of a package*. Would you
say that nobody should be messing with system Python on Linux by doing a
`--user` install of a package, or even a regular system-wide pip install?
 On linux, system `dist-packages` are lower priority than `site-packages`.
I don't think there is anything different about Extras on OS X.


>
> > but it would be worth people being aware of it
>
> Yes, awareness is always good --    The more people that know how to
> answer the inevitable questions that come up, the better.
>
> - Chris
>
>
>
> > (and Nick Coghlan is on distutils-sig, so he might feel it's worth
> > raising with python-dev for their thoughts)
> >
> > Paul
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