On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:56 PM, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > MySQLdb won't install as non-root on Python 2.6 because > its "setup.py" file requires "setuptools". "setuptools", > unlike "distutils", isn't part of the Python 2.6 distribution. > > IMPORTANT PACKAGES SHOULD NOT USE "setuptools". Use the > standard "distutils". "setuptools" and "eggs" create more > problems than they solve. "setuptools" has many built-in > assumptions about where things are supposed to be, and they're > usually wrong.
Yes, setuptools is often a pain. The magic incantation you want is something like python setup.py install --prefix=someprefix --single-version-externally-managed --record=/dev/null. I myself have a small script which detects whether setup.py uses setuptools or not, and add the necessary options in setuptools case for a sane behavior. David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
