Yes, the ini location should not be dependent on the fact that Spyder is installed or not.
Le 21 janv. 2012 à 00:11, Steve <[email protected]> a écrit : > So a bootstrapped devel version of spyder is supposed to use the > default ini (same as installed version)? > > On Jan 20, 4:04 pm, Pierre Raybaut <[email protected]> wrote: >> Le 20 janv. 2012 à 00:18, Steve <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >>> After install you will see it creates three separate folders: >>> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\spyder >>> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\spyderlib >>> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\spyderplugins >> >> Only the two last ones are really installed by Spyder itself. The >> first one is created by the Spyder's Python(x,y) Windows installer and >> has absolutely no direct effect on the Python installation (files >> related to the Python(x,y) installer are stored there: uninstaller >> program, installation log, ...). >> >>> This structure pretty much forces development to be done away from the >>> normal spyder paths. >> >>> It just seems like it would be cleaner if it were all located under >>> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\spyder >> >> The current situation is clean -- it is very common (and totally >> admitted and handled by official deployment tools like distutils) for >> Python libraries to have more than one package inside them (meaning >> more than one folder installed in site-packages). Two seems quite >> reasonable. >> >>> Putting all the files in the one directory could have the side effect >>> of letting development be done in the folder under site-packages >>> instead of somewhere else. >> >> Well, developing directly in the site-packages directory is clearly >> not a good practice. This directory is only intended as a target >> folder for installing libraries, not for developing code. For this, >> you would have to create a development folder elsewhere (on Windows, >> preferably outside C:\Python27) and add it to your PYTHONPATH user >> environment variable. Or, as suggested Anatoly, you may directly run >> Spyder's development version through the bootstrap script without >> having to change your environment variables. >> >>> I do know that you can bootstrap spyder from the development >>> directory. I don't, however, know how to specify an ini. It doesn't >>> seem to use the default %USERPROFILE%/.spyder2/.spyder.ini file. Is >>> that by design or coincidence? I dropped a spyder.ini into my devel >>> directory but spyder seemed to ignore it. >> >> AFAIK, Spyder is using the ini located in user's home directory. >> >> If this is an issue with the ini file being the same with the stable >> release and the development release, then this is another problem. >> Note that it would be a good idea to create a preference directory >> specific to the development version. >> >> In the meantime, you may copy the whole directory and restore it later >> if you want to backup your whole configuration. Note that there is >> also the "session" open/save feature which should do exactly the same >> thing. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Jan 19, 4:34 pm, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> FYI, it is easier for development to just run Spyder from source - without >>>> placing it into site-packages. >> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "spyder" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spyder" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en.
