I've created a script to set up a non-root installation of Python, suitable for testing installation procedures. It follows the instructions located here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#non-root-installation
The script is at: http://svn.colorstudy.com/home/ianb/non_root_python.py To do testing I've created a new user on my system, so I don't mix things up with my normal development, and so I have nothing to lose ;) I use it like: /usr/bin/python non_root_python.py --no-site-packages --clear I doubt it will work on a Windows system, but it should work on a Mac. You can run it with --clear to reset the system quickly, so you can restart your installation process from zero. --no-site-packages doesn't copy anything from the standard site-packages dir (unlike in the instructions), so you can start out even more bare. But you can use that or not, it shouldn't cause a problem either way. (Well, it *can* cause problems, but interesting problems; like I have cheetah installed with a Debian package, so if I copy site-packages I get an error related to that -- I'm not sure what to do about that at this point). Just make sure ~/bin is first in your $PATH. Ian _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
