[Distutils] Distutils and easy_install...

[Douglas Mayle]

Sorry, I meant to send this onlist.  Reposting:

In the end, after some great suggestions and debugging help from Ian  
Bicking, I managed to monkeypatch the monkeypatch to restore my  
original script.  I was using a hybrid approach (sometimes importing  
distutils, sometimes setuptools) to avoid the script handling, but  
with this workaround, I should be able just to switch back to  
setuptools so that I don't have to think about it.

In my case, I have an install_script stub:

def install_script(self, dist, script_name, script_text, dev_path=None):
     self.write_script(script_name, script_text, 'b')

And I then monkeypatch setuptools if it's loaded:

if sys.platform != 'win32' and 'setuptools' in sys.modules:
     # Someone used easy_install to run this.  I really want the correct
     # script installed.
     import setuptools.command.easy_install
     setuptools.command.easy_install.easy_install.install_script =  
install_script

You'll notice that I leave the patching alone on win32, because I  
understand the desirability of having an exe file there...

Thanks,
Douglas Mayle

On Apr 16, 2009, at 2:32 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:

> At 01:03 PM 4/16/2009 -0400, Douglas Mayle wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>>        I'm having an annoying problem and I was directed here to  
>> see if you
>> knew what could be done.
>>
>>        I'm using distutils for my package instead of setuptools  
>> because it's
>> a command line app, and the half second that setup tools adds to each
>> launch for pkg_resource scanning is unacceptable.  I use the scripts
>> parameter, and it happily installs the script I expect and things are
>> running along.  If I try to use easy_install to install the package,
>> however, (and more importantly, if a user of mine does) it seems that
>> setuptools is monkeypatching the distutils module and replacing
>> setup.  This means that instead of just copying my script to bin,
>> setuptools is creating it's own script that does a pkg_resource scan
>> and then loads my script from the original location.  Is there any  
>> way
>> to ensure that I'm using the distutils.core.setup that I expect, and
>> not the one that setuptools monkeypatches into place?
>
> Use "easy_install -eb. MyPackage" to download the source (which will  
> be placed in a 'mypackage/' subdirectory, then change to that  
> directory and run "setup.py install" to install using distutils  
> instead of setuptools.
>

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