Pavol Juhas wrote: > easy_install already creates its own distribution object > before sourcing pkgfoo/setup.py, in addition setup.py > is executed in a sandbox with mangled sys.argv. >
At least for the Distribution class, what you can do is to detect whether you are run under setuptools/easy_install or not, and conditionally inherit from there. I don't know if it is enough to get --prefix from easy_install - I never use easy_install. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig