another distutils question

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 14:46:41 EDT 2006


Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> is there anyway I can, in a setup.py file, set  and internal equivalent 
> to the '--install-scripts' commandline option?

Please don't. Hard-coding that interferes with the user's decision of where 
things should go. Only the user should be making that decision, not the package 
author.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco




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