At 10:26 PM 9/20/2009 -0400, David Lyon wrote:
> Eh? It's *possible* to specify it in those places now, but
> well-behaved packages never do.
Not on windows, outside of the c:\pythonXY directory.
Create a setup.cfg with an [install] section and you can make it
install wherever you tell it to... when installing using
setup.py. (bdist_wininst and bdist_msi are something else altogether.)
Define well behaved..
If you are saying that Python observes all microsofts
recommendations under windows and is "well-behaved" I think
I'd have some comments about that.
"Well behaved" is installing a python program to "Program Files"
but distutils doesn't allow this to my knowledge.
It most certainly does; but not in a bdist_wininst or bdist_msi
(AFAIK), and definitely not by default. You'd need to specify the
location on the command line.
> If platform/pyver-specific dependencies are all that's required,
> there's a way to specify them using setuptools' existing dependency
> syntax, using "extras".
But you have told everybody that setuptools is dead... and
you don't have any plans to work on it any more..
You are misrepresenting my statements. I have neither called it dead
nor have I said I don't have plans to work on it any more. (In fact,
I've said the opposite, noting that the existence of Distribute makes
the possibility of doing some advanced work on setuptools *more*
likely, because I needn't worry so much about the maintenance backlog.)
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