Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 02:10 PM 2/9/2006 -0600, Robert Kern wrote: > >>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>>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? Didn't want setuptools involved at all. He's wasted more hours on it than he ever really wanted to in the days before non-root installs were reasonably documented. He just doesn't trust it. He only has setuptools installed at all because I've convinced him to distribute eggs of his project (and that I will help him troubleshoot setuptools issues). -- 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
