[Distutils] Installation: new code, new docs

[Joe Van Andel]

> I've just checked in a bunch of changes to the 'install' command, the
> net effect of which is that it now WORKS.  

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm not sure about that . . .

I removed my distutils distribution, and re-synced with CVS.  Here's the
tail end of
% rm -fr build
% python setup.py install

running install_lib
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "setup.py", line 22, in ?
    packages = ['distutils', 'distutils.command'],
  File "distutils/core.py", line 98, in setup
    dist.run_commands ()
  File "distutils/core.py", line 531, in run_commands
    self.run_command (cmd)
  File "distutils/core.py", line 580, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run ()
  File "distutils/command/install.py", line 361, in run
    self.run_peer ('install_lib')
  File "distutils/core.py", line 877, in run_peer
    self.distribution.run_command (command)
  File "distutils/core.py", line 578, in run_command
    cmd_obj = self.find_command_obj (command)
  File "distutils/core.py", line 508, in find_command_obj
    cmd_obj = self.create_command_obj (command)
  File "distutils/core.py", line 490, in create_command_obj
    klass = self.find_command_class (command)
  File "distutils/core.py", line 468, in find_command_class
    raise DistutilsModuleError, \
distutils.errors.DistutilsModuleError: invalid command 'install_lib' (no
class '
install_lib' in module 'distutils.command.install_lib')

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"python setup.py install_py " did work, however, the result was that
distutils seems broken.

On my extensions:

% python setup.py build
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "setup.py", line 72, in ?
    ext_modules = [
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/core.py", line 81, in
setup
    dist = klass (attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/core.py", line 245,
in __init__
    raise DistutilsOptionError, \
distutils.errors.DistutilsOptionError: invalid distribution option
'install_path'


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Joe VanAndel  	          
National Center for Atmospheric Research
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/~vanandel/
Internet: vanandel@ucar.edu