Talking of stow, I take advantage of this thread to do some shameless
advertising :)
Recently I uploaded to PyPI a software of mine, BPT [1], which does
the same symlinking trick of stow, but it is written in Python (and
with a simple api) and, more importantly, it allows with another trick
At 12:04 PM 5/10/2009 -0600, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
The thing that prevents this from working with setuptools is that
setuptools creates a file named easy_install.pth during the "python
./ setup.py install --prefix=foo" if you build two different Python
packages this way, they will each cr
following-up to my own post to mention one very important reason why
anyone cares:
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
> It is a beautiful, elegant hack because it is sooo dumb. It is also very
> nice to use the same tool to manage packages written in any programming
>
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
> On May 10, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>
>> If GNU stow solves all your problems, why do you want to use
>> easy_install in the first place?
>
> That's a good question. The answer is that there are two separate jobs:
> building executables and putting
On May 10, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
If GNU stow solves all your problems, why do you want to use
easy_install in the first place?
That's a good question. The answer is that there are two separate
jobs: building executables and putting them in a directory structure
of the
