On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:10:09PM -0500, P.J. Eby wrote: > > Setuptools has a distutils-compatible installation mode: > > "setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --record=somefile" > > It's a bit awkward to type, but it should do what you want.
But wouldn't this require all end users to know the incantation? Presumably I could add the following to the top of setup.py: sys.args += ['--single-version-externally-managed', '--record=somefile'] But that seems sort of dirty. :) -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig