Christian Holtje wrote: > Ian Bicking wrote: > > >>There shouldn't be non-egg stuff; if there is, then the package isn't >>really a good setuptools package. I think setuptools catches attempts >>to write files elsewhere too, and at least warns about it. While I >>can understand you want to stick to a stow-based system, at this point >>stow seems unnecessarily indirect. However, you can always give the >>-d option or one of the other available options to have easy_install >>put the egg right where you want it. > > > I didn't see the -d option. That does most of what I need right there. > Spiffy. > > I agree, that some sort of UI that I could manage eggs and versions with > would be excellent and a happy replacement for stow.
It also occurred to me that --single-version-externally-managed describes exactly what stow implies (stow managing the version). But yes, you don't have to use stow to have stow-like isolation. > I would like to be able to keep these eggs out of the "distribution"'s > directories, though. Since I don't want things being replaced on > upgrade, etc. You can enforce that by putting your preferred installation options in /usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/distutils.cfg (sadly you have to put the configuration in that location or your home directory in ~/.pydistutilssomething). -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig