Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: I’ve reviewed the last patch. It looks like the code only installs to the global site-packages, and there is no support to install to the user site-packages or to another arbitrary location.
On Windows, normal users seem to be able to write to the global site-packages (see #12260), but on other OSes with a proper rights model <wink> that won’t do. Luckily, PEP 370 brings us user site-packages (currently poorly documented, see #8617 and #10745), but only for 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x. It looks like Tarek is ready to drop 2.4 compatibility for distutils2, so the question is: what to do under 2.5? Generally, I don’t see why develop could not install to any directory. We want a default invocation without options to Just Work™, finding a writable directory already on sys.path and writing into it, but that doesn’t exclude letting the user do what they want. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8668> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
