[Python-Dev] PEP 297: Support for System Upgrades

[Guido van Rossum]

> >     GvR> Or a micro-release should clear out the system-packages
> >     GvR> directory.
> > 
> > The only reason I'd rather not do that is so that if a package still
> > needs an update for the new Python micro release, a sysadmin could at
> > least copy the package over from one version to the next.
> 
> +1
> 
> Ok, then, let's call the dir "site-upgrades-<pyversion>" with
> <pyversion> being major.minor.patchlevel.

+1

> It seems that only site.py needs to be changed. Hmm, but
> what happens if someone invokes Python with -S (don't load
> site.py) ?

They deserve what they get; they'll have to do their own sys.path
manipulation.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)