Using Python for my web site

[Cliff Wells]

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:51 +0200, paul kölle wrote:
> Cliff Wells wrote:
> 
> > For myself, I handle user-installation of TurboGears pretty much like I
> > do all user-installed Python packages: using setuptools.  Any user who
> > uses easy_install or 'python setup.py install' gets their packages
> > automatically installed into a subdirectory of their home directory and
> > that takes precedence over the system installed packages.  Works like a
> > charm.
> May I ask how you handle clashes with packages already installed in
> site-packages? Once I tried something like ~/lib/python and set up
> distutils accordingly, easy_install wouldn't work if the package was
> installed system-wide...

I followed these instructions:

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#administrator-installation

So far I've had no issues with package clashes. 

Regards,
Cliff


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