On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:58 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...snip... > As I've said a dozen times in this thread already, the feature I'd like to > get from a per-user installation location is that 'setup.py install', or at > least some completely canonical distutils incantation, should work, by > default, for non-root users; ideally non-administrators on windows as well > as non-root users on unixish platforms. >
This is a big +1 from me. The way I currently work around the "must be root to install stuff" on both OS/X and other Lin/Uni(xes) is via virtualenv.py and a lot of bash environment trickery. If nothing else comes out of this, I think what glyph points out is the ideal, and simplest goal. Ignoring the directory name debate, I would like to see this local "user" dir mirror the normal directory tree that packages installed from distutils/setuptools typically use, namely it should have the: lib/site-packages/<your module here> and bin/<your scripts here> directories, and a known parent name. One thing that could be done is pick a default name for the parent, ala ~/Python - but let users override it with an environment variable if they so desire (PYTHON_USER_DIR?) so that those who want it hidden can have it hidden, and those of us who don't, don't. -jesse _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
