On Tuesday 03 August 2004 04:49 am, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Nice, but does this actually implement what you had in mind ?
I think it does.
I don't see how the sysadmin could configure the system to preset the commands package path. Hmm, he could probably do so by tweaking the global distutils.cfg.
The sysadmin can tweak the global config file to affect all users. Individual users can tweak their personal config file or a local config file (in the directory containing setup.py), or they can give the option from the command line only when they want it to take effect.
The tests make sure the option from the configuration file is handled correctly, though they only cover the local configuration file. Mucking aruond with the per-installation and per-user files seemed dangerous, and changing the per-installation file could easily fail if Python is actually installed (due to lack of permissions). In fact, the tests are somewhat fragile since they expect the per-installation and per-user files not to specify a value for this. I'll fix this fragility in the patch today.
-Fred