[Distutils] development-egg in current directory

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi Phillip,

Phillip J. Eby schrieb:

> So leave off the install-dir and script-dir arguments.  By the way, if

If I leave both of, it tries to install into
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages.


> If your goal is simply to test scripts without affecting anything else,
> the simple thing to do is:
> 
>     python setup.py develop -md /some/dir

Thanks! I'll use
   python setup.py develop -md .

which looks good for me.


> you specify an install-dir, the script-dir defaults to that directory,
> so your options are redundant anyway.
....
> The -m means that /some/dir won't have to be on PYTHONPATH, 

I suggest adding this o the Wiki. It is not obvious, that -m means this.
(I would do myself, but I'm not allowed to edit the page.)

Thanks again!

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