Comment 8 for bug 158756

On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> As I see it, it would be nicest to fix both, bootstrap, and
> buildout, to ...
>
> ... either move the position of site-packages in sys.path to the end
> of the sys.path[0:0] assignment (I did manually, and it solves the
> problem)

just as a side note, imho "site-packages" shouldn't be injected into
`sys.path` at all as it's put in there by default when you start a
python interpreter. that is, unless you run it with "-S", of course,
but then you explicitly request it to be excluded.

> ... or to never use setuptools installed system-wide, be it an egg
> or a package
>
> I think the first would be cleanest and further, no local setuptools
> egg
> should be installed, if there is a system-wide one, that could be used
> instead (given its not out-dated or something).

actually i think your second suggestion would be make more sense here
as the buildout should be as self-contained as possible. it would of
course require another download, but that should hurt too much, since
usually buildout's gonna download a lot of things anyway. and this
way you'd never end up with a version of setuptools that is too old
for buildout, either.

best regards,

andi

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