With easy_install I can specify --site-dirs to make it setup package with .pth files. But with setuptools alone I can't, particularly "python setup.py develop". I'm not sure if there's a setting in distutils.cfg I could use...? There doesn't seem to be any appropriate command-line option. I'm also not sure how the site directories are identified...? In this case, on Debian, /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages isn't recognized as such a directory, even after I added it with site.addsitedir in sitecustomize. Ian
Ian Bicking wrote:
With easy_install I can specify --site-dirs to make it setup package with .pth files. But with setuptools alone I can't, particularly "python setup.py develop". I'm not sure if there's a setting in distutils.cfg I could use...? There doesn't seem to be any appropriate command-line option.
I'm also not sure how the site directories are identified...? In this case, on Debian, /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages isn't recognized as such a directory, even after I added it with site.addsitedir in sitecustomize.
On Debian that directory is added to the list of site directories in site.addsitepackages(), which is automatically executed through site.main(). If it's not working on your machine, then I think it's a problem with your particular configuration. -- Robert Kern rkern@ucsd.edu "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter
Robert Kern wrote:
Ian Bicking wrote:
With easy_install I can specify --site-dirs to make it setup package with .pth files. But with setuptools alone I can't, particularly "python setup.py develop". I'm not sure if there's a setting in distutils.cfg I could use...? There doesn't seem to be any appropriate command-line option.
I'm also not sure how the site directories are identified...? In this case, on Debian, /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages isn't recognized as such a directory, even after I added it with site.addsitedir in sitecustomize.
On Debian that directory is added to the list of site directories in site.addsitepackages(), which is automatically executed through site.main(). If it's not working on your machine, then I think it's a problem with your particular configuration.
That's what I figured. But it's working -- setuptools just doesn't know that it's working, and so it doesn't create .pth files.
Ian Bicking wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
Ian Bicking wrote:
With easy_install I can specify --site-dirs to make it setup package with .pth files. But with setuptools alone I can't, particularly "python setup.py develop". I'm not sure if there's a setting in distutils.cfg I could use...? There doesn't seem to be any appropriate command-line option.
I'm also not sure how the site directories are identified...? In this case, on Debian, /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages isn't recognized as such a directory, even after I added it with site.addsitedir in sitecustomize.
On Debian that directory is added to the list of site directories in site.addsitepackages(), which is automatically executed through site.main(). If it's not working on your machine, then I think it's a problem with your particular configuration.
That's what I figured. But it's working -- setuptools just doesn't know that it's working, and so it doesn't create .pth files.
Ah, okay. I thought you were saying that it wasn't working in general (since site.addsitedir() doesn't affect whether or not easy_install will install to it; it just affects whether or not .pth files will work in general). You're right; there doesn't seem to be a way to tell the develop command that the directory is a site-dir. Perhaps it could check for the existence of easy-install.pth. Or perhaps the --site-dirs option should be duplicated there, too. -- Robert Kern rkern@ucsd.edu "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter
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