[Distutils] setuptools and extra_path

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Jul 18 19:57:43 CEST 2006


On Jul 18, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 10:11 AM 7/18/2006 -0700, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>
>>> At 04:29 PM 7/17/2006 -0700, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>> On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>>>> If you can live with that limitation (explicitly setting one or
>>>>> both of those options when making a super call), I can have it
>>>>> respect extra_path.  But it's a no-go in any other circumstance,
>>>>> I'm afraid.
>>>>
>>>> I don't have any problem explicitly setting either or both of those
>>>> options. I'm only targeting setuptools, I don't care about old
>>>> distutils compatibility... I just want something close to the old
>>>> behavior, for now.
>>>
>>> Okay, it's in the 0.7 and 0.6 SVN trunks now; please test
>>> (ez_setup.py setuptools=dev06) and let me know if it works for you.
>>
>> seems to work, thanks!
>>
>> -bob
>
> Great; please check out the sdist/egg_info version thing too.

Looks right, I tried both a release and dev configuration and it  
preserved the right metadata in setup.cfg. I have not tried a  
setup.cfg that had any other settings in it though.

-bob




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