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

[Christian Hudon]

Robert Kern wrote:
> 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-.....
>
Tried it. It works great! Wouldn't have thought of that... Thanks!

  Christian