[Distutils] distil 0.1.1 released

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Fri May 3 20:37:40 CEST 2013


On May 3, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:

> Signed PGP part
> On 05/03/2013 02:24 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> 
> > People expect "package install" as root to work like every other
> > package system (yum, apt, take your pick) where they run "sudo pip
> > install a b c d" and then run their app as a service-specific user.
> 
> I don't know any of those people:  either folks have learned *not* to
> install as root, or else they run as root too.
> 

I know a fair number of people like that. The common wisdom is *not* to install python packages from the system package mangers. because they generally either don't have everything so you'll need to install from PyPI anyways, or they'll have really old versions.

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