[Distutils] easy_install question

[Thomas Heller]

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:

> At 09:38 PM 9/23/2005 +0200, Thomas Heller wrote:
>
>>- When I run 'easy_install ctypes', the behaviour depends on the current
>>directory.  If I run this when the current dir contains a 'ctypes'
>>subdirectory, it doesn't search pypi^H^H^H^HCheeseShop for this name,
>>instead it seems to attempt to install from source in that directory.
>>Is that intended?
>
> Yes.  EasyInstall's arguments may be a URL, an existing local filename, or 
> a "requirement" string, and the precedence is in that order.  (i.e., it's 
> checked to see if it's a URL, then if it's a filename, and finally parsing 
> as a requirement string is done.)
>
>
>>   Can I override this behaviour?
>
> Add a version specifier, e.g. "ctypes==4.0", or use an absolute URL.

Hm.  A big advantage is that I don't have to remember the URL.

>>- When I install a package which requires another package is there a way
>>to specify a download url for the required package?
>
> The --find-links option can include download links as well as URLs of pages 
> containing download links.  If you pass a URL that ends with a recognizable 
> distutils filename, EasyInstall will use it if it matches the version 
> requirement(s).
>
> A question: are you embedding EasyInstall in something else, or are these 
> questions about direct use?

No, direct use.  The use case is a little bit weird, because I was
trying to install comtypes (via the pypi link), and comtypes requires an
'inofficial' ctypes version which is available on the comtypes SF files
area.

Thomas