I have noticed that easy_install has a easy-install.pth file which seems to be adding the directories specified in it before any other python package directories, including the environment variable PYTHONPATH. This causes a problem with orca which uses a bash script to start itself, and specifies where its python packages should be found by setting the PYTHONPATH variable. This wouldn't cause problems except when a user has more than one version of orca installed (eg. a stable version from the distribution installed in the standard python site-packages directory and one (SVN trunk version) in a custom directory). I found that easy_install had added the standard python site-packages directory (/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages on my system) to easy-install.pth so making it impossible to use my custom install of orca as the standard location was first in sys.path.
Is what easy_install doing really a standard thing? If not then this should be corrected to get things to behave as they should. If it is standard then either can easy_install prevent the standard python site-packages module from being added to easy-install.pth or can you suggest a way that orca can overcome this problem? Michael Whapples _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
