[Python-checkins] r45789 - sandbox/trunk/setuptools/EasyInstall.txt
phillip.eby
python-checkins at python.org
Fri Apr 28 20:04:08 CEST 2006
Author: phillip.eby
Date: Fri Apr 28 20:04:07 2006
New Revision: 45789
Modified:
sandbox/trunk/setuptools/EasyInstall.txt
Log:
Remove out-of-date info about zipfile analysis
Modified: sandbox/trunk/setuptools/EasyInstall.txt
==============================================================================
--- sandbox/trunk/setuptools/EasyInstall.txt (original)
+++ sandbox/trunk/setuptools/EasyInstall.txt Fri Apr 28 20:04:07 2006
@@ -549,10 +549,6 @@
* Possible use of ``inspect`` functions that expect to manipulate source files
(e.g. ``inspect.getsource()``)
- * Any data files or C extensions (this restriction will be removed in a future
- release, once the ``pkg_resources`` runtime has been hardened for multi-user
- environments)
-
If any of the above are found in the package being installed, EasyInstall will
assume that the package cannot be safely run from a zipfile, and unzip it to
a directory instead. You can override this analysis with the ``-zip-ok`` flag,
@@ -786,7 +782,7 @@
EasyInstall will not actually build or install the requested projects or
their dependencies; it will just find and extract them for you. See
`Editing and Viewing Source Packages`_ above for more details.
-
+
``--build-directory=DIR, -b DIR`` (UPDATED in 0.6a1)
Set the directory used to build source packages. If a package is built
from a source distribution or checkout, it will be extracted to a
@@ -1085,7 +1081,7 @@
[install]
install_lib = ~/py-lib
install_scripts = ~/bin
-
+
Be sure to do this *before* you try to run the ``ez_setup.py`` installation
script. Then, follow the standard `installation instructions`_, but make
sure that ``~/py-lib`` is listed in your ``PYTHONPATH`` environment variable.
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