At 03:13 PM 11/11/2009 +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
But you call it with "install" in your example, meaning that is is
called at install time, right ?
Or it is just that you want to get the "--prefix" value finalized and
computed by the install
command. If it's the later, I guess you will be able to use the
upcoming "sysconfig" module,
that gives you the install schemes, depending on sys.prefix/sys.exec_prefix.
The issue is that setup.py can accept multiple commands on the
command line, and in principle "build_clib" might be being called as
a subcommand of build (and thus of install). So, he needs the
*active* --prefix, either from the command line, config file(s), or
defaults. Simply having an API to get the defaults won't help this.
Really, getting a finalized "install" command object is the only way
to do this correctly in distutils at the moment, and the sysconfig
API won't change that.
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