[Python-Dev] New functionality in micro releases (was:Documenting branch policy)

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:18, Anthony Baxter wrote:

> The approach taken by the XML add-on package doesn't seem to be the 
> right approach, either. At the moment your choices are to manually install
> the new code over the old, or else have a separate install area that's
> manually added to the start of the PYTHONPATH (this is what mailman
> does, right?)

Right, and it sucks because there are multiple top-level entry points
into the system (e.g. command line and cron scripts) and each has to
mangle the path very early on.  Then there's the pain of not being able
to run for the source directory because the configure/install procedure
sets up the path hacking module with the proper paths.  Blech.

-Barry