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On Mar 11, 2008, at 3:58 AM, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
- add another path (e.g. /usr/local/python/lib2.x/site-packages),
and remove the /usr/local/lib/python2.x/site-packages path after
the next release. Does provide an upgrade path, but doesn't solve
the probem immediately.
That just means you will break people's python at a later point
again. That certainly can not be the right thing to do.
Depends on how you look at it I guess. I see it as eventually fixing
everyone's Python ;).
Iff we really must come up with a way to make it a bit easier for
people to install their own python version make it a system-wide
switch in /etc/default/python2.x and keep the default behaviour as
it is now so you will not break existing installations.
I'm not sure what the "it" is you want to make a system-wide switch.
Would that be which Python to use, or whether to add the sys.path hack?
I don't know who's going to be at Pycon later this week, but if enough
distro people are around, I'd be very happy to have a discussion about
how to make this more consistent across distros, more amenable to
users and developers, and how to make things less mysterious,
confusing, or fragile. Given how many system tools are being built in
Python now (a good thing!), there should be some agreement on the
right way to do it.
I'll be at Pycon and would be willing to chat about this at a BOF,
over lunch, or over beers. :)
- -Barry
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