[Distutils] Help making setuptools install more like plain distutils one

[Ian Bicking]

Use --single-version-externally-managed (also pip using this flag by
default, so if you install via pip you'll get this behavior).

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Christian Hudon <chrish at apstat.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a setup where a central /usr/local is copied to all our machines.
> The packages installed in said central /usr/local are managed via stow.
> (Basically, each package is installed in a separate directory under
> /usr/local/stow, and invoking the stow command creates symlinks to make the
> package appear under /usr/local.)
>
> This works very well for a wide range of packages: autoconf packages, CRAN
> packages for R, etc. This includes plain distutils python packages (install
> via "python setup.py install --prefix /usr/local/stow/some-package-name",
> then run stow). The only exception is setuptools-based python packages.
>
> Is there a way to ask setuptools to do an install that looks more like a
> standard distutils install? I don't care if I lose some the advanced
> setuptools features. Basically, I need an install that's done via just
> copying new files. Problems like setuptoosl checking that the destination
> directory is in the PYTHONPATH I can work around (although if there's a
> switch to disable that check, I'd be happy to learn about it). The main
> problem is the file that's edited on each install to add a new line for each
> package install via setuptools. Is there a way with setuptools of getting
> just a directory tree (or a tarball, etc.) that either setuptools or myself
> can just copy somewhere to have an installed python module?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
>
>  Christian
>
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