Ian Bicking wrote:Hiya! I really like setuptools and the eggs and stuff. I want to help you out by giving you a specific user case. I don't fully understand setuptools, so I apologize in advanced for any errors.Setuptools and people using setuptools can only deal with actual issues, not with vague dislikes. This is open source, issues get resolved, but there's never any guarantee that issues don't *exist*. I am a system administrator for several systems. I use a distro to manage most of my software, but obviously some python modules don't come with my distro (too new or the distro doesn't have it). I usually solve this by doing the following as a non-root user: $ /usr/bin/python setup.py install
--prefix=/usr/local/stow/projectname-versionThis allows me to keep the previous version around in case I need to roll back. Here is a (trunicated) tree listing from trac project: /usr/local/stow/trac-svn-r2824 |-- bin |-- lib | `-- python2.3 | `-- site-packages | `-- trac `-- share |-- man | `-- man1 `-- trac Right now my workaround is to use bdist_egg and then copy the egg into the directory /usr/local/stow/project-version/lib/python2.4/site-packages (which I have to mkdir first). This isn't perfect because I don't get non-egg stuff, if any exists. I hope that this helps you. ^_^ Ciao! -- Probable-Possible, my black hen, She lays eggs in the Relative When. She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now Because she's unable to postulate How. -- Frederick Winsor The Doctor What: Need I say more? http://docwhat.gerf.org/ docwhat *at* gerf *dot* org KF6VNC |
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