My experience has been: pip is happy with setup.py, installs correctly. if 'install' in sys.argv: print "WARNING: 'setup.py install' is known to not work." print "Either use 'setup.py develop', or run launchLeo.py directly" print "or run 'pip install .'" sys.exit()
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:46 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It seems to me that a top level setup.py is normal for python and >> moving it would break pip, which is not desirable. > > Yes, that's the essence of the problem. > >> is it possible to tweak setup.py to just print >> >> Please see http://leoeditor.com/installing.html >> >> when run as above? > > I like this idea. > >> Not sure if that would mean having the code determine whether it's >> being invoked from pip or not and do something different when it is, >> but if it's easy to do, that seems like the least degrading solution :-) > > This code appears, commented out, at the start of setup.py:: > > #if 'install' in sys.argv: > # print "WARNING: 'setup.py install' is known to not work." > # print "Either use 'setup.py develop', or run launchLeo.py directly" > # sys.exit() > > Presumably this was not good for some reason. > > Terry, are you interested in taking this on? It might involve seeing > how pip calls this script. > > Edward > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
