[IronPython] Default install location and site-packages

[Michael Foord]

Jeff Hardy wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Michael Foord
> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>   
>> The first succeeds, naturally. Are you saying that it would be *more*
>> surprising if the second succeeded?
>>     
>
> It should be surprising - a limited user should *never* be able to
> install software into a shared location. The fact that it works for
> CPython is a bug, not a feature. I would totally expect to have to
> elevate to install a package; IIRC, it's the norm on *nix machines to
> need to sudo to write to site-packages.
>   

You can try raising a bug against CPython for this, but I *imagine* you 
will get short-shrift (although in the presence of PEP 370 I am willing 
to be surprised).

So the question is, how important is CPython compatibility in regard to 
this behaviour?

Perhaps IronPython could make PEP 370 site-packages the *default*?

Michael

> Limited users should only be able to write to a per-user site-packages
> (I think this is what virtualenv is supposed to accomplish, but
> virtualenv has always been a mystery to me). It's no different that a
> limited user being able to install into the GAC.
>
> - Jeff
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