[Distutils] Supporting extensibility in disutils

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

On Monday 02 August 2004 01:38 pm, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
 > The PYTHONDISTUTILSPATH would allow this without having to
 > change any code, even though it's considered dangerous.

Agreed; I wasn't objecting to using an environment variable for this, or to 
exposing some sort of distutils.path.  I think what goes into the path is 
module names, not directory names, though, so it's a tiny bit different from 
sys.path in construction.

 > Providing distutils.path would also allow munging the path
 > in e.g. sitecustomize.py which is probably what you have in mind.

Actually, no, I was thinking of loading a setting from the configuration file, 
which allows per-installation and per-user configuration.  That also avoids 
importing distutils in sitecustomize, which I consider a good thing (the 
fewer things that affect Python's startup, the better!).


  -Fred

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