On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:11:05 -0400, "Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 09:19 PM 10/16/2006 -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: >>I revisited setuptools again tonight hoping to learn a bit more about it. >>Unfortunately I'm still stuck where I was last time I looked. >> >>I'm using Combinator to manage my Python libraries. This means that I have >>a fair amount of software installed at ~/.local/lib/pythonX.Y/site- >>packages, a PYTHONPATH which includes only >>~/Projects/Divmod/trunk/Combinator, at which location resides a >>sitecustomize.py which sets up the rest of my path. >> >> From the documentation, and various experimentation, it seems like this >>configuration is still not supported. > >It is supported. What problem are you having? As long as you are having >setuptools install packages to a directory on PYTHONPATH, you should be >fine.
When I run ez_setup.py, it tells me: TEST FAILED: /home/exarkun/.local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ does NOT support .pth files error: bad install directory or PYTHONPATH ... /home/exarkun/.local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ is not in PYTHONPATH, but it has been passed to site.addsitedir(). Jean-Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
