[Distutils] distutils.core.setup --install-script option in Python 2.6 ?

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 23:28:21 CET 2009


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Jim Vickroy <Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Please excuse the repost (sent last week), but I'm hoping someone on the
> list can get me on-track with a distutils problem.
>
> I have just upgraded from Python 2.5 to 2.6.4 (MS Windows XP service pack
> 3).
>
> My setup.py scripts (based on distutils.core.setup) no longer work with the
> --install-script option.  Here is the error:
>
>  * error: option --install-script not recognized

Hi Jim,

the option (in 2.5 and 2.6) is "--install-scripts" (notice the final 's')

Regards
Tarek


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