[Python-Dev] PEP: per user site-packages directory (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Jan 21 15:48:41 CET 2008

Christian Heimes wrote:

Steve Holden wrote:

Maybe once we get easyinstall as a part of the core (so there's no need to find and run ezsetup.py to start with) things will start to improve. This is an issue the whole developer community needs to take seriously if we are interested in increasing take-up. setuptools and easyinstall won't be included in Python 2.6 and 3.0: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0365/ Yes, and yet another release (two releases) will go out without easy access to the functionality in Pypi. PEP 365 is a good start, but Pypi loses much of its point until new Python users get access to it "out of the box". I also appreciate that resource limitations are standing in the way of setuptools' inclusion (is there something I can do about that?) Just to hammer the point home, however ...

The easy_install utility from setuptools is probably the biggest potential recruiter for Python. It makes the language accessible to the majority of users who are interested only in acquiring new functionality, and not at all in which language that functionality is implemented in. Installation of the latest/most appropriate version of something then becomes a simple recipe without command switches

regards Steve

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