On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 10:43 AM 8/8/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >> One hack I can think of is to use --editible and --build-directory to >> download the package, write a setup.cfg into the resulting directory >> and then run easy_install on the result. I would hope though that >> there is a better way. :) > > Not at the moment, no. However, you could subclass easy_install > and override the 'run_setup()' method to edit the setup.cfg first. > The setuptools.command.setopt module includes some nice routines > for editing setup.cfg files, so that you won't even overwrite > settings you don't care about.
OK, I'll look at that when I get a chance. Thanks. Would you be interested in some sort of patch for 0.7 to make it possible to pass this information to easy_install? Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
