On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:53:40 -0400, Stephen Waterbury <stephen.c.waterbury@nasa.gov> wrote:
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A data point: I've been using "setup.py develop" with twisted for over a year now, and it works great for me -- definitely one of my favorite features of setuptools. I use it with an svn checkout of twisted so I can always use the latest -- especially nice with twisted because of its high quality management (trunk is almost never broken). That way I can easily track the latest version -- just do an svn update, no further installation required.
When I want to try a vcs checkout of an immature package and its setup.py uses distutils instead of setuptools, I'll try changing its setup.py to use setuptools (usually a one or two line replacement of the import) and see if "setup.py develop" works, and it almost always does.
Hi Steve, Yea, I would expect it to work alright with Twisted. The project I ran into this with is clearsilver, which it doesn't work with, and another project I had in mind when I wrote about this problem is pyOpenSSL, which is also laid out in its repository such that it cannot be used in-place. :( Jean-Paul