[Distutils] Installing packages using pip

[Wayne Werner]

On Nov 15, 2015 5:11 PM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15 November 2015 at 22:20, Robert McGibbon <rmcgibbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But I think dll/pyd files from extension modules present more of a
> > challenge, since they're left open.
>
> Good point, I'd forgotten about those. Yes, they would cause an
> upgrade to fail. Sorry.

Windows file locking is the worst. But it *is* possible to get around - see
the program called BareTail.

I was actually looking around at one point because I wanted to make a cross
platform version of it (it really is the best tail application I've ever
seen), and I think I came across a way to do it on StackOverflow, but I
think it required doing some low level open magic and maybe required the
win32api? Anyway, I kind of gave up on it, but that's the sort of thing
that I would love to see in core python. But I don't know that it would get
there without a motivated individual.

-W
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