[Distutils] python setup.py bdist_egg results depend on dir location

[Todd Greenwood-Geer]

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Great. The pbu utility is perfect. Thanks, yet again.

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
| At 12:59 PM 12/14/2005 -0800, Todd Greenwood-Geer wrote:
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|> PROBLEM:
|> I would like to be able to execute the egg build from several
|> directories, like so:
|>
|> $ cd active/SimpleExampleEgg
|> $ python setup.py bdist_egg
|>
|> then, at other times, i'd like to change to a package directory and
|> execute the builds from there:
|>
|> $ cd active/SimpleExampleEgg/fruit/docs
|> $ python ../../setup.py bdist_egg
|
| Stop right there.  The distutils do *not* support this, and neither does
| setuptools.  'setup.py' scripts *must* be run from the directory where
they
| are located, so I didn't bother reading the rest of your message.
|
| If you want to run setup.py this way, you should 'easy_install
buildutils'
| and then use its "pbu" command, e.g.:
|
|     pbu bdist_egg
|
| The "pbu" command automatically searches parent directories for a
setup.py,
| then changes to the directory where the setup.py was found, and runs
it for
| you.  This is the only safe way to do it.
|
| (When "pbu" exits, you will however still be in the directory you were in
| before.)
|
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