[Python-Dev] [Distutils] PEP 376 - from PyPM's point of view

[R. David Murray]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 at 16:14, Paul Moore wrote:
> Bluntly, as Python stands, import and sys.path do not offer any core
> support for multiple versions. Custom solutions can be built on top of
> that - that's what setuptools does. But they are precisely that -
> custom solutions, and should be supported as such, outside the core
> (and stdlib).
>
> If standard Python support for multi-version imports is required (it's
> not by me, but I accept that some people want it), then it should be
> designed in thoughout:

Isn't this problem directly analogous to the '.so version' (*) problem?
Can we learn anything from the solution to that problem?  Does not the
fact that a (standard) solution to that problem was required indicate
that a similar solution needs to be provided by core Python?  (And yes,
it's out of scope for PEP 376).

--David

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