P.J. Eby wrote:
At 01:28 PM 4/20/2009 -0400, Christian Hudon wrote:
Is there a way to ask setuptools to do an install that looks more
like a standard distutils install?
Yes, use "setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed
--record=/some/file". This will install the distutils way, and record
all the installed files in /some/file (which you can then discard if
you like).
Thanks for the answers. I looked at both options, and the
--single-version-externally-managed one would be easier for me: compared
to the bdist_dumb, it saves me the steps of finding and untarring the
tarball. Also, the bdist_dumb commands creates tarballs that can be
untarred at "/" (they contain /usr, etc.) while I would need something
more like the equivalent of what --prefix does (tarball that start with
lib, etc. that can be untarred in /usr/local or /usr...)
The only thing I'd need would be way to reliably determine if I'm
dealing with setuptools-based setup.py or not. I can always call "python
setup.py installl --help" and look if
--single-version-externally-managed is present in the output. Is there a
cleaner version of doing this?
Thanks for the help,
Christian
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