At 03:32 PM 11/15/2005 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am trying to build a package using setuptools while >maintaining a pristine source tree. For the standard >distutils setup, I do this by invoking: > python setup.py build --build-base=<here> install > >Now for setups which generate eggs using setuptools >this still creates a `dist' directory in the source >root. Looking at the setuptools documentation, I >tried: > python setup.py build --build-base=<here> \ > bdist_egg --bdist-dir=<there> install >and also --dist-dir=<there> instead of --bdist-dir, >but these both seem to place the "final" egg in ><there>, and no longer install into the invoked >python's site-packages directory.
Replace the 'install' part of your command line with 'easy_install <there>projectname-projversion-pyversion.egg', or if <there> is an empty directory, then 'easy_install <there>/*.egg' will also work. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
