At 11:32 PM 4/10/2006 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: >On 4/10/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hm. That seems odd. It should just install itself. Have you tried > > running "ez_setup.py --allow-hosts=None -f. setuptools"? > >I tried -f . but missed --allow-hosts=None. No time to try it right >now, but I'll give it a go later. (Just for completeness - see below). > > > >At the risk of going on about it, this is far messier than the > > >traditional "python setup.py bdist_wininst" and run the installer... > > > > That actually works now with setuptools-based packages, by the way. >[...] > > It's quite safe to do that; setuptools now fully supports bdist_wininst. > >That's brilliant news - I thought I saw some egg-info directories >appear, but I hadn't understood the significance.
Actually, I guess I should qualify that a bit -- it's only *fully* supported if the package has no dependencies, in that bdist_wininst has no provision for installing dependencies. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
