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

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Tue Jan 22 18:03:19 CET 2008

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

I don't really understand what all this has to do with per user site-packages.

Note that the motivation for having per user site-packages was to: * address a common request by Python extension package users, * get rid off the hackery done by setuptools in order to provide this. As such the PEP can also be seen as an effort to enable code cleanup before adding e.g. pkgresources to the stdlib.

I guess it's a typical case of "while you on it, can you fix the rest of the world, too?". People see that I invest a fair share of time into the PEP. So they hope I'm going to solve loosely connected issues, too.

Personally I'm not going to solve every security issue with my PEP. I suggest that all the people, who were interested in security, come together and write another PEP.

Christian

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