[Distutils] setuptools and extra_path

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:57 AM 7/18/2006 -0700, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>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.

I've tested it with that (by building sdists of setuptools) and it 
works.  The code that's used to edit setup.cfg is the same that's used by 
"setopt" and "saveopts", so it's had some prior testing for that aspect 
anyway.  I was mainly wanting to make sure that building sdists created 
this way works properly.

Oh, actually, the specific thing I wanted to make sure of was that on 
platforms with hard linking available it 1) works correctly and 2) doesn't 
modify the original setup.cfg.  The "sdist" command can create an archive 
tree using hard linking, so I included some code to work around that, but 
it doesn't execute on Windows so I can't test it in anger, so to speak, and 
haven't had a moment yet to check it out on a Linux box.  If you have a 
setup.cfg, it should delete the one in the temporary build tree and then 
recopy it from the source, before editing it.