On 4/22/09 5:05 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > >> On 4/22/09 4:57 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: >>> Perhaps you could provide (or point to) an example that illustrates >>> this problem. >> >> I want to keep my python install clean, so I do not have setuptools >> installed system-wide. Instead I have a small bin-directory managed >> by buildout which creates a python interpreter with setuptools, using >> this snippet: >> >> [setuptools] >> recipe = zc.recipe.egg >> interpreter = spython >> eggs = setuptools >> scripts = spython >> >> >> That allows me to use "spython setup.py sdist register upload". >> setup.py is invoked with __file__ pointing to the spython wrapper >> script, so any attempt in setup.py to use __file__ to found files >> will fail. > > > This sounds like a bug in interpreter-script's handling of scripts > passed to it. I'll look into that.
Thanks > BTW, did you realize that buildout has a setup command that does what > your spython script does (and a little more)? I was not aware of that. I can see that being useful. Most of my packages do not have their own buildout, so this won't help much for this particular issue I'm afraid. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman<[email protected]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
