Ian Bicking wrote: > With easy_install I can specify --site-dirs to make it setup package > with .pth files. But with setuptools alone I can't, particularly > "python setup.py develop". I'm not sure if there's a setting in > distutils.cfg I could use...? There doesn't seem to be any appropriate > command-line option. > > I'm also not sure how the site directories are identified...? In this > case, on Debian, /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages isn't recognized > as such a directory, even after I added it with site.addsitedir in > sitecustomize.
On Debian that directory is added to the list of site directories in site.addsitepackages(), which is automatically executed through site.main(). If it's not working on your machine, then I think it's a problem with your particular configuration. -- 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 - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig