At 03:07 PM 9/23/2005 +0200, Thomas Heller wrote:
Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> writes:
On 9/17/05, Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
However, after reflection, I think now that -m probably only really makes sense for stdlib modules, since projects using setuptools can now get all the benefits of -m without any of the drawbacks, without even writing any __name__=='__main__' code.
One thing you get with -m is that the module doesn't have to be on PATH. Where does setuptools install its wrapper executables? (The usual \Python24\Scripts directory isn't added to PATH by the installer).
I know, I'm nitpicking. Sorry :-)
No, you're not. IMO. setuptools installs them in PythonXY\Scripts.
Unless you set --install-scripts somewhere else, which you can do in a configuration file. To the greatest extent possible, I'm trying to have setuptools minimize surprises with respect to installation locations, by conforming to the active distutils configuration.
BTW: Shouldn't 'setup.py develop --uninstall' remove them again? It doesn't.
setuptools has hardly any uninstallation capabilities as yet.
And yet another question: How should my setup-script start? Is this the correct way:
""" from ez_setup import use_setuptools use_setuptools()
from distutils.core import setup
It's a way that works. I personally use 'from setuptools import setup' and whatever else I need to import, but whatever you prefer is fine. setuptools patches itself into the distutils core. It used to not do that, but then I realized that the way py2exe and other distutils extensions patch themselves in, you would lose setuptools functionality unless I patched myself in also. Hopefully in future everybody will use setuptools' extension functionality so that patching will be unnecessary.