On Feb 22, 2006, at 7:41 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 19:26 -0800, Bob Ippolito wrote: >>> The problem is, it worked without that, so users will report it as >>> a bug >>> that they cannot install the new version. Besides, all git related >>> tools are installed under $HOME/bin by default. >> >> It's a bug that the default installation location is not Python's >> default installation location. > > Then what is the proper use of the "prefix", "exec-prefix" and "home" > options in the install section of setup.cfg?
That same code also parses ~/.pydistutils.cfg and the site-wide distutils config. It makes a lot of sense to set those sorts of install options from there. > If those options cannot be used properly, then maybe their support > should be removed? It's not Pythonic to try and stop you from doing everything that could possibly be a bad idea. -bob _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
