[issue10374] setup.py caches outdated scripts in the build tree

[Geoffrey Bache]

New submission from Geoffrey Bache <gjb1002 at users.sourceforge.net>:

I have the following setup.py script:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from distutils.core import setup

scripts=["hello.py"]

setup(scripts=scripts)

I have two different python installations (using virtualenv) where I
wish to install this program. So I do

~/tmp/test_setup/python1/bin/python setup.py install

which creates a file at
/users/geoff/tmp/test_setup/python1/bin/hello.py, that looks like
this:

#!/users/geoff/tmp/test_setup/python1/bin/python

print "Hello"

So far so good. But then I also install it somewhere else:

~/tmp/test_setup/python2/bin/python setup.py install

which creates a file at
/users/geoff/tmp/test_setup/python2/bin/hello.py which refers to
"python1", i..e it has the same contents as the first one. Which is
clearly not what I want.

The cached script in the build tree appears not to get updated once it exists.

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 120864
nosy: eric.araujo, gjb1002, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: setup.py caches outdated scripts in the build tree
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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