[Python-Dev] addressing distutils inability to track file dependencies

[Thomas Heller]

> does your code always work right away?
> 
> I tend to use an incremental approach, with lots of edit-compile-run
> cycles.  I still haven't found a way to get the damn thing to just build
> my extension and copy it to the current directory, so I can run the
> test scripts.
> 
> does anyone here know how to do that, without having to resort to
> ugly wrapper batch files/shell scripts?
> 
> (distutils is also a pain to use with a version management system
> that marks files in the repository as read-only; distutils copy function
> happily copies all the status bits. but the remove function refuses to
> remove files that are read-only, even if the files have been created
> by distutils itself...)
> 
> </F>
> 

setup.py install --install-lib=.

Thomas