On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:15 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 03:33 PM 12/14/2010 +0100, Arve Knudsen wrote: > >> I found out how to solve it; I need to call >> setuptools.command.install.install.do_egg_install, since >> setuptools.command.install.install.run will emulate the standard distutils >> behaviour unless it's run directly from setup.py :( This behaviour was >> hardly obvious I have to say :( >> > > Worse news: unless you emulate that same behavior in *your* install class, > you will break bdist_rpm, bdist_wininst, bdist_dumb, etc. > > In other words, all that non-obvious behavior is there for backward > compatibility with other distutils commands that invoke "install" as a > subcommand. If you test your now-"fixed" setup.py with them, you will find > that your project does terribly broken things. > > (i.e., try "bdist_rpm" or "bdist_wininst" on a simple setup and your more > complex project, and compare the results.) > Argh :( Can you describe some other way of customizing the install command that works better with setuptools? Arve
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