Martin v. Loewis wrote: > "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes: > > >>For cases like the email package or distutils, I think it's >>perfectly OK to only provide the updates for older Python >>releases as separate download. Both have their own way of >>life, so IMHO this is acceptable. > > > In neither case, this is really possible: Once you have the package in > the Python core, a separate installation in site-packages cannot > override the core implementation. True, but it is easily possible to install those packages in a directory which is scanned before the standard lib, thus overriding the distribution versions: python setup.py install install-lib=~/lib > I believe that was the motivation for Barry to consider backporting > large amounts of changes. The same holds for distutils, except that > there aren't that many major changes. If that's the case, then we probably ought to make it easier for user installed Python add-ons to override builtin packages. This would help to get rid off the hacks which the PyXML distribution has to use in order to achieve the same. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH _______________________________________________________________________ eGenix.com -- Makers of the Python mx Extensions: mxDateTime,mxODBC,... Python Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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