Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: > .pth files are why I can't easily use GNU stow with easy_install. > If installing a Python package involved writing new files into the > filesystem, but did not require reading, updating, and re-writing any > extant files such as .pth files, then GNU stow would Just Work with > easy_install the way it Just Works with most things.
Please understand that this is the fault of easy_install, not of .pth files. There is no technical need for easy_install to rewrite .pth files on installation. It could just as well have created new .pth files, rather than modifying existing ones. If you always use --single-version-externally-managed with easy_install, it will stop editing .pth files on installation. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
