At 11:32 PM 8/11/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
Hopefully setuptools won't get installed 99% of the time, just once or twice per machine. Because setuptools installation can happen even when nothing installation-related is being requested, it's a bit out of the norm. Hence the confirmation, or at least prominent notification.
Technically, only the download can happen when nothing installation-related is being requested.
I also, like most unix users, don't usually start by running a command as root, so ez_setup will fail in that situation. At least by putting up the interactive message it's not going to be as surprising when that happens.
You only let root connect to the internet? :) Seriously, if you run setup.py --help-commands or some such, all that's going to happen is that setuptools.egg gets downloaded into the current directory and stuck on sys.path for the duration of the script. The piggyback installation only takes place as part of a "setup.py install". So, you shouldn't need root just to run the setup script if you're not installing. Similarly, if the setup script has any 'setup_requires' eggs, those eggs just get downloaded to the current directory and put on sys.path as well - and they do not do a piggyback install, because you might need them only once. In any case, piggyback installation only happens when you "setup.py install", not for any other operation whatsoever. Download of setup-time dependencies, however, occurs on the first run of setup, no matter what the command. I suppose I need to add an explanation of the setup_requires downloads, too.