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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is something I'd like to be able to do with
distutils "install":</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>python distinstall.py foo-3.2.zip</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and have the foo package installed, no unzipping
needed. distinstall.py (or whatever it is called) would be in the python path
and would be just a simple front end to setup.py. This would make my life
easier. It would be really cool if it could do this in memory, without creating
temp files (for when I'm sitting on a read only network drive installing
packages).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, I'd like to be able to package distutil
packages and have them installed. eg I create a package that depends on pysnmp
so I'd like to distribute pysnmp with my package. I'd like to avoid extending my
setup.py to repackage pysnmp (because I don't to have any idea of how it's
author packaged it) and just shove pysnmp-3.4.2.tar.gz into my dist bundle and
let distutils deal with it. This would also help me bundle up all the packages
my team is creating for our project (we are working independently).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Craig Durland</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>