tools to install not in python tree?

[Miki]

Hello Jim,

> I have some materials for a project that I am working on that I keep
> in a source code control system (svn now, but I'm experimenting with
> mercurial).  I want to install these things from the repository, but
> not into site-packages/ as Distutils wants to do.
>
> For instance there are some administrative scripts I want to put in ~/
> admin/  and some programs that I want in ~/public_html/ .   I also
> want to run some post-install routines (for instance, reset the
> database tables on my development machine).  So I'm looking for a tool
> to take things from a repository and install them into place.
> Something like:
>   install_from_repository.py -version "1.2.7"
> if there is a bug in 1.2.7 that I need to work on.
>
> Some of the things that I am looking for are like what setup.py does
> (for instance, changing the #! line on scripts or having a
> convenient .cfg file).  But as I understand it setup only targets
> installing below sys.prefix; is that right?
>
> I can write routines for myself but other people must need to do these
> things also and a tested solution is obviously better.  Is there such
> a tool?
Have a look at http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html,
specially http://docs.python.org/dist/node13.html and
http://docs.python.org/inst/alt-install-windows.html

HTH,
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Miki <miki.tebeka at gmail.com>
http://pythonwise.blogspot.com