[Distutils] specifying --with-featurename with ez_setup.py / easy_install

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:11 PM 10/2/2005 -0500, Matthew Scott wrote:
>When building/installing a package using a setuptools-based setup.py,
>you can do things like this to enable packages for optional features:
>
>   python --with-featurename setup.py install

Actually, it's "python setup.py --with-featurename install"


>I can't figure out how to use easy_install / ez_setup.py to do this
>though.  This doesn't work:
>
>   easy_install -f http://example.com/dist PackageName --with-featurename
>
>Nor does this:
>
>   easy_install --with-featurename -f http://example.com/dist PackageName
>
>Is this possible with easy_install?

Yes and no.  What you want is the --editable option, which gets you a 
source version of the package.  Then you use "python setup.py 
--with-featurename install".

In other words, if you need to do a custom build of a package, you can only 
use easy_install to find/fetch/unpack it.  You also have the option of 
using "--with-featurename bdist_egg" to build an egg, then using 
easy_install to install the egg.