[Distutils] distutils Install.py and install folder

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Riccardo-Maria BIANCHI
<riccardo.maria.bianchi at cern.ch> wrote:
>
> Good morning,
>
> I'm using distutils to package a tool, and I was thinking that it would be
> very useful to have the self.install_lib variable returned in some way to
> the user in the setup.py script, after the call of setup().

setup() returns the distribution object, which have a
get_command_obj() function you can call to get back to the commands
that were run, therefore their options.

But I don't think you want to do this just to be able to run a
standalone distribution.

You can change the PYTHONPATH environment variable for what you need,
*or* use Distribute/Setuptools' "develop" command, that allows you to
run a distribution "inplace". It creates a special file in
site-package that is comparable to a symbolic link pointing to your
project.

Regards
Tarek

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