[Distutils] small distribute improvement

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Fri Oct 16 18:11:14 CEST 2009


In article <hb9kte$ct2$1 at ger.gmane.org>,
 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is confusing that
> easy_install blah
> 
> doesn't do anything, and doesn't provide any clue, if it was to do an 
> update.  You need to say
> easy_install -U blah
> 
> There are a few choices here.  One might be that
> easy_install blah
> could notify you that an update is available.
> 
> Personally, my preference would be to just do the update.  Or, at least 
> offer to if run interactively. 

$ more ~/.pydistutils.cfg 
[easy_install]
upgrade = 1
zip-ok = 0

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 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org



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