If I give easy_install
- an ordinary spec (e.g. "demo")
- an -f option that points to a local directory containing a bunch of
eggs and that is not on sys,path,
- ask it to install to some directory (-d), and
- use the -m option
it doesn't copy eggs found to the install directory even though
the source directory isn't on sys.path. The logic for deciding whether
to copy seems to be:
# Installation is also needed if file in tmpdir or is not an
egg
install_needed = install_needed or os.path.dirname(download)
== tmpdir
install_needed = install_needed or not download.endswith
('.egg')
where install_needed starts out as false in this case because the
spec is not a url. The second part has no effect because the
value if the download variable ends in .egg.
The --always-copy documentation hints that distributions will be
copied unless they are found in a directory sys.path, but I see no
check.
Why are the eggs not copied?
Jim
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