[Distutils] eggs: Python version independence

[Ryan Tomayko]

On Jul 4, 2005, at 12:45 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> It does allow version specification at runtime; in fact there are  
> already
> hooks that can be used to make require() automatically run  
> easy_install,
> and these hooks are in fact already used to install packages' declared
> dependencies.
>
> However, these hooks have to be explicitly activated; simply  
> building this
> capability into Python's default behavior would be an extreme  
> security risk.

What's the best way to turn that on? I haven't seen it referenced in  
the doc anywhere. I have a case where that would be useful.

Ryan Tomayko
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