On 2 November 2011 15:40, Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> wrote:
Can you define what you mean with “just work”? Does it install things into $checkout/Lib/site-packages?
Seems to. Certainly does for my own packages.
The reason I care is that installing packages into a dev build is really useful for testing packaging changes. I'm not actually sure how to turn a dev build into an installed build on Windows...
http://docs.python.org/devguide/#quick-start : “On Windows, load the project file PCbuild\pcbuild.sln in Visual Studio, select Debug, and Build -> Build Solution;”
Sorry, I wasn't clear. That I know. But that produces what I assume counts as a "non-installed" build (with python.exe in the PCBuild directory). Looking at is_python_build, it's just checking for the existence of Modules\Setup.*, so I suppose I could just rename or delete those files. It all seems a bit arbitrary, though. On a non-installed Python build (i.e., python built in a checkout) on Windows, purelib and site-packages look fine: PS D:\Data> D:\Data\cpython\PCbuild\python.exe Python 3.3.0a0 (default, Oct 28 2011, 19:56:45) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import sysconfig, os sysconfig.get_path('purelib') 'D:\\Data\\cpython\\Lib\\site-packages' os.path.isdir(sysconfig.get_path('purelib')) True
It looks like this might be a Unix-only issue - if so, can I suggest that the restriction be removed on Windows, as it *is* useful to be able to install packages in a non-installed Python build. I'd argue that on Unix, get_path('purelib') should find the right site-packages even for an uninstalled build. But I've no idea if that's too hard, or is somehow otherwise an issue. And I don't need the functionality myself, so I'll leave that one for the Unix users to decide. Paul