New submission from Reuben Thomas: The instructions for non-root use of EasyInstall appear to be out of date; specifically, they don't seem to take PEP 370 into account.
My suggestion is that you replace the section called 'Mac OS X "User" Installation' with a section called "Home directory installation" and explain the PEP 370 method, which was implemented in Python 2.6, and works on all OSes. With a ~/.pydistutils.cfg like the following: [install] install_lib = ~/.local/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages install_scripts = ~/.local/bin You can install packages to PEP 370 paths, including scripts, and you are using the same paths as if you use python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME/.local. You can then also remove the "Virtual python" section. Of course, some users may still want to use Virtual Python with easy_install, but they don't need special documentation to do so; they can just use the Virtual Python documentation. ---------- messages: 693 nosy: rrt priority: feature status: unread title: Improve per-user installation instructions _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <[email protected]> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue144> _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
