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

[P.J. Eby]

At 01:28 PM 4/20/2009 -0400, Christian Hudon wrote:
>Is there a way to ask setuptools to do an install that looks more 
>like a standard distutils install?

Yes, use "setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed 
--record=/some/file".  This will install the distutils way, and 
record all the installed files in /some/file (which you can then 
discard if you like).


>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?

"setup.py bdist_dumb" is probably what you want for that.  It will 
work pretty much identically with both distutils and setuptools.