[Distutils] zip_safe=False not being respected?

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Fri Apr 18 14:33:47 CEST 2008


On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
>
> On Apr 18, 2008, at 6:19 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm trying to install a package into a Zope INSTANCE_HOME with:
>>
>> python2.4 setup.py install --home=$INSTANCE_HOME
>>
>> ...however, this is leaving me with an easy-install.pth and a .egg  
>> file
>> in $INSTANCE_HOME, even though the package has zip_safe=False in its
>> setup.py.
>>
>> What gives?
>
>
> What platform? --home is ignored on windows.


Sorry, I didn't read your note carefully enough.

--home says to use a unix-style layout rooted at the given directory.

I believe you want --install-lib

Jim

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Jim Fulton
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