At 02:10 PM 2/9/2006 -0600, Robert Kern wrote: >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.
I'm confused. They didn't want to be able to uninstall? Didn't want to point --record to /dev/null, or --root to /? Or something else? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
