Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 01:31 PM 2/9/2006 -0600, Robert Kern wrote: > >> Andrew Straw wrote: >> >> > Note that matplotlib tried essentially this for a while, but apparently >> > some folks really didn't like it. I'm not sure what exactly broke on >> > their systems (they didn't complain to the mailing list), but when >> > setup.py reverted to a plain distutils script, they cheered. >> >> That's right, they complained to me, instead. :-) >> >> The issue was that they had setuptools on their system because they were >> building eggs for another project, but specifically *didn't* want to >> install >> matplotlib as an egg. > > setuptools-based packages can be forced to install the old-fashioned way > using: > > setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed > > as long as you also specify a --root directory or a --record file. This > is of course not upgradeable or uninstallable without help from a > packaging tool that can utilize the results of --root or --record.
And this particular user did not want that, either. -- 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