[Python-Dev] Remove site-packages?!? [was: [Distutils] PEP 376 - from pythonpkgmgr's point of view]

[James Y Knight]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 4:49 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> Debian has a long history of doing this different, so it's
> not much of a surprise. They also apply such changes to
> Python packages.
>
> However, all of this is non-standard and will cause problems
> with tools that rely on the standard site-packages/ location. Such
> changes should be discouraged.

And yet, the change seems to have some strong reasoning, solves the  
problem discussed in this thread, and was apparently discussed and  
approved of by some core python developers before being implemented.  
It seems a bit foolish to me to thus just dismiss it as "evil debian  
being different"...

If anything it seems like it's a failure of the Python project to make  
easily deployable software, compounded with a failure of communication  
within the python community.

James