"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 09:38 PM 9/23/2005 +0200, Thomas Heller wrote: > >>- When I run 'easy_install ctypes', the behaviour depends on the current >>directory. If I run this when the current dir contains a 'ctypes' >>subdirectory, it doesn't search pypi^H^H^H^HCheeseShop for this name, >>instead it seems to attempt to install from source in that directory. >>Is that intended? > > Yes. EasyInstall's arguments may be a URL, an existing local filename, or > a "requirement" string, and the precedence is in that order. (i.e., it's > checked to see if it's a URL, then if it's a filename, and finally parsing > as a requirement string is done.) > > >> Can I override this behaviour? > > Add a version specifier, e.g. "ctypes==4.0", or use an absolute URL.
Hm. A big advantage is that I don't have to remember the URL. >>- When I install a package which requires another package is there a way >>to specify a download url for the required package? > > The --find-links option can include download links as well as URLs of pages > containing download links. If you pass a URL that ends with a recognizable > distutils filename, EasyInstall will use it if it matches the version > requirement(s). > > A question: are you embedding EasyInstall in something else, or are these > questions about direct use? No, direct use. The use case is a little bit weird, because I was trying to install comtypes (via the pypi link), and comtypes requires an 'inofficial' ctypes version which is available on the comtypes SF files area. Thomas _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
