On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:46 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor <leo-editor@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> It seems to me that a top level setup.py is normal for python and > moving it would break pip, which is not desirable. Yes, that's the essence of the problem. > is it possible to tweak setup.py to just print > > Please see http://leoeditor.com/installing.html > > when run as above? I like this idea. > Not sure if that would mean having the code determine whether it's > being invoked from pip or not and do something different when it is, > but if it's easy to do, that seems like the least degrading solution :-) This code appears, commented out, at the start of setup.py:: #if 'install' in sys.argv: # print "WARNING: 'setup.py install' is known to not work." # print "Either use 'setup.py develop', or run launchLeo.py directly" # sys.exit() Presumably this was not good for some reason. Terry, are you interested in taking this on? It might involve seeing how pip calls this script. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
