[issue8668] add a 'develop' command

Éric Araujo added the comment: See also http://groups.google.com/group/the-fellowship-of-the-packaging/browse_thread/thread/10506b8326a7b047 -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue8668] add a 'develop' command

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- versions: +3rd party -Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue8668] add a 'develop' command

Éric Araujo added the comment: One part of develop that we could add is the creation of a .pth file in a directory on sys.path (with Python >= 2.6, --user gives that for free). IMNSHO, this should be implemented as an option to the install_lib* command, named --link-only or something better.

[issue8668] add a 'develop' command

Éric Araujo added the comment: I have started to draft a similar proposal¹ but it seems that the wiki is not a communication medium as good as the bug tracker or the mailing lists (probably because of technical issues such as the lack of watchlist and e-mail notifications as much as because o

[issue8668] add a 'develop' command

New submission from Dan Buch : make a 'develop' command in distutils2 a la setuptools (unless, of course, this has already been unilaterally refused via distutils-sig or other communication) -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2 messages: 105359 nosy: meatballhat, tarek priority: n