On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Andrea Crotti <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm trying to understand exactly when running python setup.py develop is > necessary to make sure that everything will work as expected. > > After some thinking I came to the conclusion that all the information > that should be kept up-to-date is in the .egg-info directory. So if I > understood correctly means that I only need to run "develop" once and > "egg_info" every time I need to update. > Not quite correct: if you add new scripts to your project, then you would also need to run develop in that case, to install the new scripts. And as a related topic we would really like to avoid cluttering the > directories with these egg-info directories, and with my script I know > write them in another known directory. > > But what happens if pkg_resources or similar try to use these > information and don't find the egg-info because it's not where it's > supposed to be? > It will either fail to find the package, or add some other directory to sys.path, possibly messing various things up in the process. Using "develop" with a relocated egg-info directory should actually give you an error message; I'm kind of surprised that it's not giving you an error message, unless perhaps you're waiting until *after* you've run "develop" to move the .egg-info. (Either that or I didn't consider that anybody would want to use develop with a manually-relocated .egg-info, and thus didn't put in the error checking.)
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