On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ziade.tarek@gmail.com">ziade.tarek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello<br>
<br>
There's one feature I want to add in distutils2: the develop command<br>
setuptools provides. Basically it adds a "link" file into<br>
site-packages, and does some magic at startup to load the path that is<br>
contained in the link file. The use case is to be able to have a<br>
project added in the python path without installing it.<br></blockquote><div><br>The link file is a red herring -- setuptools adds an entry to easy-install.pth that points to the directory. It would work equally as well to add a .pth file for the specific package (though .pth files append to the path, so if you already have a package installed and then a .pth file pointing to a development version, then it won't work as expected, hence the magic in easy-install.pth).<br clear="all">
</div></div><br>-- <br>Ian Bicking | <a href="http://blog.ianbicking.org">http://blog.ianbicking.org</a><br>