[Distutils] Enabling local distutils.cfg usage

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Tue Oct 9 18:05:10 CEST 2007


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Ian Bicking wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
>> When building a virtual environment, I'd like to be able to store
>> global distutils configuration options which are custom to that
>> environment.  However, both setuptools and distutils expect to
>> read / write that file relative to the directory of
>> 'distutils.__file__', which is located in the *source*
>> environment under virtualenv 0.8.4::
> 
> This should be working in virtualenv trunk; I had to switch up the way 
> sys.path was constructed some, because the way it was the system path 
> came before the virtualenv path, so a virtual distutils wouldn't be seen.

Cool. Where is the trunk SVN, by the way?


Tres.
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