Hello,
We have a setup where a central /usr/local is copied to all our
machines. The packages installed in said central /usr/local are managed
via stow. (Basically, each package is installed in a separate directory
under /usr/local/stow, and invoking the stow command creates symlinks to
make the package appear under /usr/local.)
This works very well for a wide range of packages: autoconf packages,
CRAN packages for R, etc. This includes plain distutils python packages
(install via "python setup.py install --prefix
/usr/local/stow/some-package-name", then run stow). The only exception
is setuptools-based python packages.
Is there a way to ask setuptools to do an install that looks more like a
standard distutils install? I don't care if I lose some the advanced
setuptools features. Basically, I need an install that's done via just
copying new files. Problems like setuptoosl checking that the
destination directory is in the PYTHONPATH I can work around (although
if there's a switch to disable that check, I'd be happy to learn about
it). The main problem is the file that's edited on each install to add a
new line for each package install via setuptools. Is there a way with
setuptools of getting just a directory tree (or a tarball, etc.) that
either setuptools or myself can just copy somewhere to have an installed
python module?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Christian
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