[Python-ideas] Add a site.cfg to keep a persistent list of paths

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> There's one feature I want to add in distutils2: the develop command
>> setuptools provides. Basically it adds a "link" file into
>> site-packages, and does some magic at startup to load the path that is
>> contained in the link file. The use case is to be able to have a
>> project added in the python path without installing it.
>
> The link file is a red herring -- setuptools adds an entry to
> easy-install.pth that points to the directory.  It would work equally as
> well to add a .pth file for the specific package (though .pth files append
> to the path, so if you already have a package installed and then a .pth file
> pointing to a development version, then it won't work as expected, hence the
> magic in easy-install.pth).

Yes, or a develop.pth file containing those paths, like Carl proposed
on IRC. a .cfg is not really helping indeed.

But we would need to have the metadata built and stored somewhere. A
specific directory maybe for them.


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