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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 16:06:16 CET 2008

Steve Holden wrote:

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 ...

Have another look at the rationale given in PEP 365 - it isn't the resourcing to do the work that's a problem, but the relatively slow release cycle of the core.

By including pkg_resources in the core (with the addition of access to pure Python modules and packages on PyPI), we would get a simple, stable base for Python packaging to work from, and put users a single standard command away from the more advanced (but also more volatile) features of easy_install and friends.

Cheers, Nick.

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