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

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-04-20 15:49, Christian Hudon wrote:

> The only thing I'd need would be way to reliably determine if I'm
> dealing with setuptools-based setup.py or not. I can always call "python
> setup.py installl --help" and look if
> --single-version-externally-managed is present in the output. Is there a
> cleaner version of doing this?

You could ensure that you always have a setuptools-based setup.py:

python -c "import setuptools; execfile('setup.py')" install --single-version-.....

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Robert Kern

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