On 3 May, 11:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 3, 2008, at 7:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fred asked for a --prefix flag (which is what I was voting on). I
don't
really care what you do by default as long as you give me a way to do
it
differently.
What's most interesting (to me) is that no one's commented on my note
that my preferred approach would be that there's no default at all;
the location would have to be specified explicitly. Whether on the
command line or in the distutils configuration doesn't matter, but
explicitness should be required.
I thought I responded to it in my initial response, but let me be
clearer.
First, Skip, I *only* care about the default behavior. There's already
a way to do it differently: PYTHONPATH. So, Fred, I think what you're
arguing for is to drop this feature entirely. Or is there some other
use for a new way to allow users to explicitly add something to
sys.path, aside from PYTHONPATH? It seems that it would add more
complexity and I can't see what the value would be.
As I've said a dozen times in this thread already, the feature I'd like
to get from a per-user installation location is that 'setup.py install',
or at least some completely canonical distutils incantation, should
work, by default, for non-root users; ideally non-administrators on
windows as well as non-root users on unixish platforms.
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