July 23, 2007
8:48 p.m.
At 04:05 PM 7/23/2007 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
It doesn't even make sense to *use* easy_install if you are already in the unpacked source distribution; the intersection of the two sets of use cases is empty.
Not true, actually. "setup.py install" doesn't give you the same flexibility of options as "easy_install .", since the latter lets you specify options like whether or not to unzip the resulting package, and whether to include dependencies or not.