At 12:02 PM 4/18/2008 -0400, Alexander Michael wrote:

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:

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Alexander Michael wrote:

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By default, setuptools enabled setup.py's install eggs (either zipped or unzipped) so that you can multiple version installed (but only one active, of course). If you want to install just a single version as a standard python package directory, then use the --single-version-externally-managed option as described in the documentation:

$ python2.4 setup.py install --home=$INSTANCE \ --single-version-externally-managed running install error: You must specify --record or --root when building system packages

Sadly neither the --record or --root options appear to be documented anywhere...

That is sad. There is a hint from "python setup.py install --help": --root install everything relative to this alternate root directory --record filename in which to record list of installed files

Maybe they're provided by standard distutils? I know the seuptools documentation doesn't reiterate anything about distutils, just the additions.

Correct: --root and --record are standard distutils options. In this case, you want --record, not --root. The reason this option requires either --root or --record, is so that you have a way to know what was installed and uninstall it. In the --root case, everything installed will be under a single directory tree, and in the --record case, you'll have a list of the files.