[Distutils] Script-specific .pth files (or baking paths into scripts)

2006-05-17 Thread Jim Fulton
I seem to remember a threat from from Phillip to make a proposal for installing script-specific ,pth files with scripts, but I don't think I every saw anything. Have I missed anything? If so, what? :) If not, I'll probably write something myself and share it. Jim -- Jim Fulton

Re: [Distutils] Script-specific .pth files (or baking paths into scripts)

2006-05-17 Thread Ian Bicking
Jim Fulton wrote: I seem to remember a threat from from Phillip to make a proposal for installing script-specific ,pth files with scripts, but I don't think I every saw anything. Have I missed anything? If so, what? :) If not, I'll probably write something myself and share it. workingenv

Re: [Distutils] Script-specific .pth files (or baking paths into scripts)

2006-05-17 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:50 AM 5/17/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: I seem to remember a threat from from Phillip to make a proposal for installing script-specific ,pth files with scripts, but I don't think I every saw anything. I haven't done it yet, mainly because I haven't decided how it should work, exactly.

Re: [Distutils] Script-specific .pth files (or baking paths into scripts)

2006-05-17 Thread Jim Fulton
Ian Bicking wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: I seem to remember a threat from from Phillip to make a proposal for installing script-specific ,pth files with scripts, but I don't think I every saw anything. Have I missed anything? If so, what? :) If not, I'll probably write something myself and

Re: [Distutils] Script-specific .pth files (or baking paths into scripts)

2006-05-17 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 11:50 AM 5/17/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: I seem to remember a threat from from Phillip to make a proposal for installing script-specific ,pth files with scripts, but I don't think I every saw anything. I haven't done it yet, mainly because I haven't decided how it

Re: [Distutils] Script-specific .pth files (or baking paths into scripts)

2006-05-17 Thread Ian Bicking
Jim Fulton wrote: Ian Bicking wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: I seem to remember a threat from from Phillip to make a proposal for installing script-specific ,pth files with scripts, but I don't think I every saw anything. Have I missed anything? If so, what? :) If not, I'll probably write

Re: [Distutils] Script-specific .pth files (or baking paths into scripts)

2006-05-17 Thread Ian Bicking
Jim Fulton wrote: It's also a reasonable requirement for scripts you don't want breaking randomly. These continue to be my bane. What are the use cases? Well, here's how workingenv deals with some of these right now... I want to be able to install multiple programs (scripts), each with

Re: [Distutils] Script-specific .pth files (or baking paths into scripts)

2006-05-17 Thread Jim Fulton
Ian Bicking wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: Ian Bicking wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: I seem to remember a threat from from Phillip to make a proposal for installing script-specific ,pth files with scripts, but I don't think I every saw anything. Have I missed anything? If so, what? :) If not,

Re: [Distutils] Script processing plugins?

2006-05-17 Thread Jim Fulton
Phillip J. Eby wrote: Okay, so after today's discussions I'm still not really clear on how path freezing (baking, whatever) should work for standalone setuptools. Would it solve the problem for your use cases if I provided an option like --script-wrappers=plugin1,plugin2,..., where the

Re: [Distutils] Script processing plugins?

2006-05-17 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: Okay, so after today's discussions I'm still not really clear on how path freezing (baking, whatever) should work for standalone setuptools. Would it solve the problem for your use cases if I provided an option like --script-wrappers=plugin1,plugin2,..., where the

Re: [Distutils] Script processing plugins?

2006-05-17 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:53 PM 5/17/2006 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: Phillip J. Eby wrote: Okay, so after today's discussions I'm still not really clear on how path freezing (baking, whatever) should work for standalone setuptools. Would it solve the problem for your use cases if I provided an option like