[Python-Dev] pkgutil, pkg_resource and Python 3.0 name space packages (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Jan 10 00:52:58 CET 2008

Paul Moore wrote: [...]

No matter how you cut it, Windows isn't designed for per-user installable programs. Maybe a per-user site-packages just isn't appropriate on Windows. This reminds me of the early days of Microsoft Terminal Service (read: "X Window done wrong fifteen years later"), when various applications had to be modified to stop saving per-user data in global locations. It underlines the fact that essentially Windows is still betrayed by its original conception as a single-user system.

The idea that users would /program their own computers/ was totally alien to the Windows mindset.

looking-at-Vista-and-thinking-very-hard-ly y'rs - steve

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