On Jan 27, 2012, at 03:38 PM, Brian Sutherland wrote: >On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:36:40AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> What if we proposed a hook to get DEFAULT_VERSION from a file or environment >> variable? Then at least on Debian systems we could provide that file in our >> python-setuptools package, or set the envar in our d/rules files? I'd >> probably prefer the former since it would allow us to specify the default >> version for the majority of Python packages. The two aren't mutually >> exclusive, but I'm not sure both would be useful. > >I'm not sure it's more useful than just setting DEFAULT_VERSION to a >very old version. It's certainly more complex. Yes, but it would allow us to "solve" this once, globally, rather than patching every upstream package that uses distribute_setup.py. We can't control what upstreams do, but if we could make it easier to adhere to our own policies without patching upstream, all the better. -Barry
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