[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1258: having Tahoe or any dependency installed in site-packages (or any other shared directory) can cause us to run or test the wrong code

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#1258: having Tahoe or any dependency installed in site-packages (or any other
shared directory) can cause us to run or test the wrong code
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     Reporter:  davidsarah          |      Owner:  davidsarah
         Type:  defect              |     Status:  new
     Priority:  major               |  Milestone:  eventually
    Component:  dev-infrastructure  |    Version:  1.8.0
   Resolution:                      |   Keywords:  setuptools test docs
Launchpad Bug:                      |
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Comment (by zooko):

 How about if we establish a weaker goal: to detect at run-time whether
 this ''has'' happened and raise an exception if so. That's probably more
 doable than actually fixing the Python packaging system to always import
 the right code.

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