Okay, I've checked in a preliminary version of --site-dirs support in the Python CVS HEAD of nondist/sandbox/setuptools; why don't you give that a try? It may be a few hours before it's available for anonymous checkout, however, as Sourceforge only updates their anoncvs snapshots every six hours or so, IIRC. If you have Python developer privileges, you can get it sooner than that. At 12:34 PM 7/16/2005 -0700, Robert Kern wrote:
I tried doing a bit of EasyInstall evangelism, and apparently, the Kool-Aid isn't quite sweet enough yet. ;-)
I got feedback from someone trying the very first example with SQLObject in the documentation. He is using Debian Linux and thus does not install anything that's not from a .deb into /usr/lib. User-installed Python packages need to go into /usr/local/lib/python2.x/site-packages. To encourage this, Debian's site.py is patched to add that to the list of .pth-enabled directories. I imagine that similarly conscientious/anal distributions do likewise.
My friend is a bit more conservative than that, even. He manages /usr/local using GNU Stow so he can make installations as non-root. This is very important to him. He's even willing to use tricky .pth hacks[1] to permit this.
Fortunately, all of his technical concerns can be addressed by adding --site-dirs.
[1] As documented here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/1895
-- Robert Kern rkern@ucsd.edu
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