Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 02:10 PM 2/9/2006 -0600, Robert Kern wrote:
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
setuptools-based packages can be forced to install the old-fashioned way using:
setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed
as long as you also specify a --root directory or a --record file. This is of course not upgradeable or uninstallable without help from a packaging tool that can utilize the results of --root or --record.
And this particular user did not want that, either.
I'm confused. They didn't want to be able to uninstall? Didn't want to point --record to /dev/null, or --root to /? Or something else?
Didn't want setuptools involved at all. He's wasted more hours on it than he ever really wanted to in the days before non-root installs were reasonably documented. He just doesn't trust it. He only has setuptools installed at all because I've convinced him to distribute eggs of his project (and that I will help him troubleshoot setuptools issues). -- Robert Kern robert.kern@gmail.com "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter