Release notes: * Added support for "traditional" PYTHONPATH-based non-root installation, and also the convenient ``virtual-python.py`` script, based on a contribution by Ian Bicking. The setuptools egg now contains a hacked ``site`` module that makes the PYTHONPATH-based approach work with .pth files, so that you can get the full EasyInstall feature set on such installations.
* Added ``--no-deps`` and ``--allow-hosts`` options to easy_install. * Improved Windows ``.exe`` script wrappers so that the script can have the same name as a module without confusing Python. * Changed dependency processing so that it's breadth-first, allowing a depender's preferences to override those of a dependee, to prevent conflicts when a lower version is acceptable to the dependee, but not the depender. Also, ensure that currently installed/selected packages aren't given precedence over ones desired by a package being installed, which could cause conflict errors. * Activated distributions are now inserted in ``sys.path`` (and the working set) just before the directory that contains them, instead of at the end. This allows e.g. eggs in ``site-packages`` to override unmanaged modules in the same location, and allows eggs found earlier on ``sys.path`` to override ones found later. * When a distribution is activated, it now checks whether any contained non-namespace modules have already been imported and issues a warning if a conflicting module has already been imported. * Fixed a problem extracting zipped files on Windows, when the egg in question has had changed contents but still has the same version number. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
