Folks:
There are two things that cause a lot of people to object to the use
of setuptools: that it changes the semantics of PYTHONPATH, and that it
doesn't work when you run "setup.py install --prefix=somedir".
This pair of patches addresses the second issue: that when you run
"python ./setup.py install --prefix=somedir" it doesn't work like
distutils does. It is possible to work-around this in various ways
(either with --svem --record or with mkdir -p and PYTHONPATH before
invoking setup.py) but the existence of these work-arounds does not
seem to be sufficient to make some people accept the use of setuptools
[1, 2, personal correspondance from my "Why do you hate setuptools?"
survey].
These patches make setuptools behave more like distutils in this
respect.
I know that you had good reason to do these sanity checks in the first
place, PJE, but I hope that you will consider accepting these patches
in order to extend setuptools's reach.
Sat Nov 15 12:04:20 MST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* try to mkdir the install directory
This eases the common use case of "./setup.py install --
prefix=somedir"
and makes setuptools behave more like distutils in this case.
--- old-dw-0.6c9/setuptools/command/easy_install.py
+++ new-dw-0.6c9/setuptools/command/easy_install.py
@@ -249,6 +249,14 @@
instdir = normalize_path(self.install_dir)
pth_file = os.path.join(instdir,'easy-install.pth')
+ # mkdir it if necessary
+ try:
+ os.makedirs(instdir)
+ except OSError:
+ # Oh well -- hopefully this error simply means that it
is already there.
+ # If not the subsequent write test will identify the
problem.
+ pass
+
# Is it a configured, PYTHONPATH, implicit, or explicit
site dir?
is_site_dir = instdir in self.all_site_dirs
Sat Nov 15 12:05:01 MST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* change exception into warning when target install dir isn't pth-
capable
This eases the common use case of "./setup.py install --prefix=foo"
followed by some other mechanism to make sure that ./foo/... is
importable, and makes setuptools behave more like distutils in
this regard.
--- old-dw-0.6c9/setuptools/command/easy_install.py
+++ new-dw-0.6c9/setuptools/command/easy_install.py
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@
if not is_site_dir and not self.multi_version:
# Can't install non-multi to non-site dir
- raise DistutilsError(self.no_default_version_msg())
+ log.warn(self.no_default_version_msg())
if is_site_dir:
if self.pth_file is None:
@@ -1059,7 +1059,9 @@
http://peak.telecommunity.com/EasyInstall.html#custom-
installation-locations
-Please make the appropriate changes for your system and try
again.""" % (
+Proceeding to install. Please remember that unless you make one of
+these changes you will not be able to run the installed code.
+""" % (
self.install_dir, os.environ.get('PYTHONPATH','')
)
Regards,
Zooko
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[1] http://adam.gomaa.us/blog/easy-install-isnt/
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+bug/238658/comments/25
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