At 08:52 AM 4/18/2007 -0300, Flávio Codeço Coelho wrote: >Em Ter, 2007-04-17 às 20:04 -0400, Phillip J. Eby escreveu: >> >> >>At 04:16 PM 4/17/2007 -0300, Flávio Codeço Coelho wrote: >> >Hi, >> > >> >I have a setup.py that has recently stopped working with a >> >sandbox-violation error message. During installation I install files under >> >/usr/share >> > >> >Is installation of file outside the python path forbidden now? >> >>It is when an egg is being built, since anything not installed to the >>temporary directory where the egg is being built will not get included in >>the egg. >> >Is this a recent change to easy_install?
No; it was originally implemented a little less than 2 years ago: http://svn.python.org/view?rev=41029&view=rev > cause my packages used to install nicely with easy_instal up to a few > weeks ago... Evidently you've changed something else, or you've been using a 2-year-old version of easy_install. :) >> >Is ther any workaraound? >> >>Don't use easy_install or build an egg. Eggs must be self-contained, and >>easy_install builds eggs before installing them. That's a feature of eggs >>-- i.e., they don't put files all over your system. > >I agree with this philosophy. But does it mean that if want my packages to >install files to other locations, I am forever banned from the >setuptools world? ;-) Please say it is not true...;-) What you must not do is install files outside the --install-dir of the distutils install_data or install_lib commands, which is rude even in the distutils-only world. In other words, do not use absolute paths in your setup() data_files. If you need to have a different default --install-dir for these commands, you should put that information in your project's setup.cfg. When building an egg, your defaults will then be ignored (because bdist_egg explicitly sets its own directories), but when your project is installed in backward-compatibility mode (i.e., not as a .egg file but as a direct install or system package), the data will go where you want it. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
