[Distutils] Enabling local distutils.cfg usage

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Tue Oct 9 22:59:28 CEST 2007


Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Ian Bicking wrote:
>> Tres Seaver wrote:
>>> When building a virtual environment, I'd like to be able to store
>>> global distutils configuration options which are custom to that
>>> environment.  However, both setuptools and distutils expect to
>>> read / write that file relative to the directory of
>>> 'distutils.__file__', which is located in the *source*
>>> environment under virtualenv 0.8.4::
>> This should be working in virtualenv trunk; I had to switch up the way 
>> sys.path was constructed some, because the way it was the system path 
>> came before the virtualenv path, so a virtual distutils wouldn't be seen.
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> Cool. Where is the trunk SVN, by the way?

At http://svn.colorstudy.com/virtualenv/trunk


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