[Python-3000] Will we have a true restricted exec environment for python-3000?

[Ian Bicking]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 10/04/06 Bill Janssen said:
>>I think we're very close to that with Python 2.5.
> 
> 
> Depends. I recently tried to install mechanize, and easytools tried to install
> a ton of dependencies, all requiring administrator access to install. --prefix
> didn't resolve dependencies, which isn't helpful if you're not root or you
> don't trust the install scripts. 

If you have specific problems you should email distutils-sig at python.org 
(and/or the mechanize maintainer) and describe the problems you are 
having, and what the desired behavior would be.

And maybe try the svn trunk version of setuptools first to see if your 
problem is resolved.

> Plus, one of the resources was unavailable to my install just failed. Relying
> on various pieces scattered over sourceforge doesn't really seem all that
> close to me. 

That's up to the people packaging their software, both how they 
distribute packages, and what packages they will require.  It's not up 
to setuptools.  And SF downloading just all-around sucks :-/ -- that's 
not setuptools' fault.


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