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#1 Installation conflicts with other packages

Reported by jfunk 2010-02-25

If you must include local copies of 3rd-party modules, please install them as submodules of roa.

I just installed roa and had to track down why one of my projects, which uses the current version of restkit, broke. Your installation overwrote my existing restkit installation with an older one.

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1. #1 David Larlet

   written 2010-02-25

   • Changed status from new to open.

   Thanks for your feedback, that fact is restkit evolves too fast for me to be able to be sure that the latest version doesn't break tests so I prefer to bundle it with roa... but I'll reconsider my position on this topic.
2. #2 jfunk

   written 2010-02-25

   Bundling is fine. Many packages bundle specific versions of 3rd-party libraries. Django bundles a specific version of simplejson, for example, but it is installed under site-packages/django/utils/simplejson, so that it does not conflict with a primary installation.

   Your package is overwriting the primary installation, so if something else needs a newer version, it will no longer work. If a user then reinstalls the newer restkit, roa will break. If you install restkit somewhere under roa, like Django does with simplejson, nothing will break.
3. #3 David Larlet

   written 2010-02-25

   • Changed responsible from nobody to david.

   You're absolutely right, I'll do that asap.
4. #4 David Larlet

   written 2010-03-01

   • Changed status from open to resolved.

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