Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Barry Warsaw Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 02:00:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Tue Feb 16 00:50:42 2016 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -5 Organization: The Organization of Unorganized Woozalists X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.1 (GTK+ 2.24.29; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/13535 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20160215195024.5b665f26@anarchist.wooz.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 11 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:50:24 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <20160215195024.5b665f26@anarchist.wooz.org> X-Original-References: <1705132.RfqMtW1P2v@kitterma-e6430> <20160122175519.5cb7542e@anarchist.wooz.org> <20160215194238.4e788bc1@subdivisions.wooz.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:8210 On Feb 15, 2016, at 07:42 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >I don't remember exactly why we called it 'site-packages', but I believe it >was an evolution from the earlier ni.py module, which was where dotted module >paths first showed up in Python. And which had a 'site-python' directory, which was kept at least for Python 1.5 also. Cheers, -Barry