On Jun 3, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
Now I'm feeling confused about how installation from svn should work. Or more generally, how deployment and development work.
Usually in development, I like to install libraries directly out of svn (no distutil step). Then I can fiddle with them if necessary, commit changes (or create diffs if I don't have commit access), etc. This is all much easier to do when there's no distutil step.
In development, with svn libraries, I check out the source tree and create a .pth file <http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/02/06/ using-pth-files-for-python-development/>. This .pth file does one of two things: 1. If the source requires distutils to build stuff (i.e. PyObjC), then I will point the .pth at the distutils build directory, so I can simply "python setup.py build" to update. 2. If the source does not (i.e. Twisted), I point the .pth at the right place in the source tree From an EasyInstall perspective, 2 is hard to figure out because there is no general way (without running distutils, anyway) to figure out where the right place is. You could do it heuristically, but you'd probably be wrong :) -bob