[Distutils] [issue142] easy_install ignores 'headers' passed to setup()

[Tres Seaver]

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On 07/09/2012 11:13 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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> New submission from Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>:
> 
> A bare distutils install of a package with 'headers' passed to
> 'setup()' dispatches to 'install_headers', which copies the exported
> header files into the system include path.
> 
> 'easy_install' bypasses the distutils 'install()' when doing a normal 
> egg install, and does not re-implement the 'install_headers' dance.
> 
> Furthermore, the 'bdist_egg' it creates, even though it contains the 
> header files, has no metadata which would allow the installer to 
> discover that they should be copied.

Note that distribute has the same bug, which I reported here:

 https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/295


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