-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Phillip J. Eby schrieb: >> At 04:58 PM 9/3/2008 +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm currently installing development eggs into the current directory >>> (the checkout directory) like this: >>> >>> PYTHONPATH=.:$PYTHONPATH \ >>> python setup.py develop --install-dir . --script-dir . >>> >>> Since this has problems when re-running (see issue40), I wonder whether >>> this is the correct use of the 'develop' egg. Any hints? >> It's definitely not the correct use, especially since, depending on your >> layout, it could potentially overwrite your scripts. develop is >> intended for installing to a directory that's normally *already on* >> sys.path. Why are you doing that? > > Because I defined script-entry-points which I need to test. If there is > another way to so this, I'll happily change :-)
In such I case, I always create a virtualenv[1], and use *its* python to do 'setup.py develop': the scripts are then installed into the 'bin' directory of the virtualenv. [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIvrZK+gerLs4ltQ4RAjWmAJ0ZNgpTkV+APO3BtRwOCT8uNO3OYwCgji13 sQ3V2oNtjmlWvpc7OFhXaZU= =6Gb2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
