[Zope3-dev] Re: Core dump with z3

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Jeremy Hylton writes:
 > Python 2.3 distutils supports this feature and setup.py has the
 > necessary declarations to make them work.  Folks using Python 2.2 would
 > probably benefit from installing the 2.3 distutils in their
 > site-packages.

No, they won't.  site-packages is searched last, so it can't override
the standard library.  It could be dropped into the top of the Zope
source tree, next to the setup.py script; that would cause the imports
to work right at least.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation