On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:16 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > I wonder why they don't just use the sitewide distutils.cfg file, which > would let them configure user-installed packages to go to somewhere else, > e.g.: > > [install] > prefix = /usr/local > > (And of course the build tools could specify different options.)
Some systems do this. I've found this problematic with virtualenv, as people get weird results because they don't realize this configuration file exists. Also there's no way currently in distutils to unset a value, so if something like prefix is given explicitly there's no way to indicate it should be calculated (you just have to give an explicit value for --prefix). -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
