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[issue8617] Better document user site-packages in site module doc

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May 9, 2012, 8:38 AM

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[issue8617] Better document user site-packages in site module doc

Maxim Doucet <maxim.doucet [at] gmail> added the comment:

Shouldn't there be an update of the 2.6 documentation too?

After your patch, the 2.7 reflects the existence of the "--user" option (see http://docs.python.org/release/2.7.3/install/index.html#alternate-installation-the-user-scheme) but not the 2.6 documentation (http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.8/install/index.html#alternate-installation).

In my personal experience, I used the "--home" option with python 2.6 to mimic what "--user" does and it took me 2 weeks to, by chance, stumble upon http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/ which informed me that the "--user" option was originally available for python 2.6. If it had been on the 2.6 documentation, it would have been easier and more coherent IMHO.

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May 9, 2012, 8:40 AM

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Éric Araujo <merwok [at] netwok> added the comment:

2.6 only gets security fixes now.

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May 9, 2012, 8:44 AM

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Éric Araujo <merwok [at] netwok> added the comment:

BTW it appears that many people use the most recent 2.7 documentation even if they are using 2.6, because the doc is better and there are notes which tell you if something was changed or added in 2.7. For PEP 370 there are notes in the doc of the site module and the environment variables but I forgot to add one to the distutils doc; I will do that.

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May 9, 2012, 8:45 AM

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Maxim Doucet <maxim.doucet [at] gmail> added the comment:

Fair enough, thank you for the information. As a side note, my original question was in fact more suited for issue10745

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