At 05:17 PM 5/29/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
Looking at some of the packages I'm interested in, there's a couple ones that don't use distutils. Of course, fixing this is best, but I'm wondering if those can be installed as well. Typically you can install these packages just by copying them into place.
Hm. They're going to get a 0.0.0 version number. :( I suppose there could be an option to '--make-setup=version' that would let you automatically create a setup.py using that version number. But that seems rather hacky; I'd rather spend the effort writing a setup.py for the package in a local directory, then submitting it to the author as a patch. Or, if the package is orphaned, building a .egg and distributing it for others' benefit.