On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:36:40AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jan 27, 2012, at 01:14 PM, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > >Extra bonus points for getting PJE to change the DEFAULT_VERSION in > >setuptools trunk to something OK for most major distributions;) > > Here's a thought: > > What if we proposed a hook to get DEFAULT_VERSION from a file or environment > variable? Then at least on Debian systems we could provide that file in our > python-setuptools package, or set the envar in our d/rules files? I'd > probably prefer the former since it would allow us to specify the default > version for the majority of Python packages. The two aren't mutually > exclusive, but I'm not sure both would be useful. > > What would that file name be? > > Is this just adding more nonsense to insanity? If it would be useful, I'd be > happy to pursue it in upstream.
I'm not sure it's more useful than just setting DEFAULT_VERSION to a very old version. It's certainly more complex. -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120127143828.GB45898@Brians-MacBook-Air.local
