[Distutils] Passing build_ext arguments to easy_install?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:43 AM 8/8/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>One hack I can think of is to use --editible and --build-directory to
>download the package, write a setup.cfg into the resulting directory
>and then run easy_install on the result.  I would hope though that
>there is a better way. :)

Not at the moment, no.  However, you could subclass easy_install and 
override the 'run_setup()' method to edit the setup.cfg first.  The 
setuptools.command.setopt module includes some nice routines for editing 
setup.cfg files, so that you won't even overwrite settings you don't care 
about.