I tried doing a bit of EasyInstall evangelism, and apparently, the Kool-Aid isn't quite sweet enough yet. ;-)
I got feedback from someone trying the very first example with SQLObject in the documentation. He is using Debian Linux and thus does not install anything that's not from a .deb into /usr/lib. User-installed Python packages need to go into /usr/local/lib/python2.x/site-packages. To encourage this, Debian's site.py is patched to add that to the list of .pth-enabled directories. I imagine that similarly conscientious/anal distributions do likewise. My friend is a bit more conservative than that, even. He manages /usr/local using GNU Stow so he can make installations as non-root. This is very important to him. He's even willing to use tricky .pth hacks[1] to permit this. Fortunately, all of his technical concerns can be addressed by adding --site-dirs. [1] As documented here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/1895 -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
