Fw: Resolution of the library-path mess

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Daniele!

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 00:32:33 -0600
Daniele Nicolodi <daniele at grinta.net> wrote:

> On 06/10/17 18:47, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
>   
> >> Debian solves the problem of installing user components in the
> >> system path creating a dist-libraries along the site-libraries
> >> path in the python module folder.    
> > 
> > Uh, yeah.  Pretty much universal.  Except you left out the sort of
> > details we are discussing.  There are MANY site-linraries in MANY
> > python module folders, all used by the SAME python interpreter.
> > This discussion is about which of those is correct, and whick is
> > not.    
> 
> This is true only for patched up python installations. Stock python
> does not do that, that is not documented, and is absolutely not
> standard. Please point me to the official python documentation that
> states that a python interpreter installed in $prefix/bin/ looks for
> modules outside $prefix.  Here is the documentation I read:  

Uh, I can't, and I never suggested it did.  That is why you need
PYTHONPATH.

> > Oh, funny.  When did we veer into comedy?  Let's not.    
> 
> I think you don't understand what a python virtual environment is.  

I understand it, I just assert that it is way more uncommon than you
think.

> But you and your mates may be too smart to think there is may be
> something you can learn.  

My mates?  Who would that be?

RGDS
GARY
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RGDS
GARY
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