[Python-Dev] pkgutil, pkg_resource and Python 3.0 name space packages

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-01-07 14:57, Fred Drake wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008, at 7:48 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Next, we add a per-user site-packages directory to the standard
>> sys.path, and then we could get rid of most of the setuptools
>> import and sys.path hackery, making it a lot cleaner.
> 
> 
> PYTHONPATH already provides this functionality.  I see no need to
> duplicate that.

Agreed, but one of the main arguments for all the .pth file hackery in
setuptools is that having to change PYTHONPATH in order to enable
user installations of packages is too hard for the typical user.

We could easily resolve that issue, if we add a per-user site-packages
dir to sys.path in site.py (this is already done for Macs).

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