why do you need to delete bzrlib when installing

[John Whitley]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
>> If I do
>>
>>  python setup.py install --home ~
>>
>> it ought to overwrite ~/lib/python/bzrlib, but it does not seem to do
>> so. [... deletia ...]
>
> AFAIK it has never worked. Even for "python setup.py install" where  
> you
> install to the global directory.

This is probably why I've seen a number of python installers that  
apparently do local installations by building an egg-based installer  
package then doing a local install of the egg.  AFAICT, that approach  
should avoid overinstall problems.

-- John