[Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

[Ian Bicking]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:03 AM, zooko <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:

> David 2.  entry_points doesn't work when the svn checkout is just in
> PYTHONPATH or ".", and fails if there is a non-existent directory on his
> PYTHONPATH.
>

Probably this is because the package isn't activated, and if it's not
activated you can't see its entry point.  When a .pth file is on PYTHONPATH,
Python won't load it up (it only loads .pth files in some specific
locations).  So while easy-install.pth would normally activate a package (by
adding it to sys.path), with PYTHONPATH that doesn't work.

I think the site.py that Setuptools will sometimes create is intended to
address this, but it might not always work.

Or there might be some entirely different problem I'm unaware of.

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Ian Bicking  |  http://blog.ianbicking.org
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