At 09:35 AM 3/1/2006, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:

With the latest version of EasyInstall i had a major problem with the "exhaustive testing of the install directory, including a spawn test for .pth file support" since my pkg manager uses `setup.py install --root=Dest` to install the pkg in a image directory, before installing it on the system.

actually i work around this by creating the needed dirs and adding them to PYTHONPATH

is there a nicer way too work with such pkg managers ?

Yes. Use "setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --root=Dest", which will do the installation in a way that's package manager friendly. I may change this at some point so that a --root (other than /) automatically triggers the other option, but at the moment I'm not sure whether that would interfere with anything else.