[Distutils] question about setuptools

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:08 PM 9/14/2005 -0700, Robert Kern wrote:
>Index: setuptools/command/easy_install.py
>===================================================================
>RCS file: 
>/cvsroot/python/python/nondist/sandbox/setuptools/setuptools/command/easy_install.py,v
>retrieving revision 1.28
>diff -u -r1.28 easy_install.py
>--- setuptools/command/easy_install.py  3 Sep 2005 04:50:05 -0000       1.28
>+++ setuptools/command/easy_install.py  14 Sep 2005 06:17:28 -0000
>@@ -141,6 +141,10 @@
>          self.set_undefined_options('install', ('record', 'record'))
>          normpath = map(normalize_path, sys.path)
>          self.all_site_dirs = get_site_dirs()
>+        install_cmd = self.distribution.get_command_obj('install')
>+        if install_cmd.prefix is not None:
>+ 
>self.all_site_dirs.append(normalize_path(install_cmd.install_lib))
>+
>          if self.site_dirs is not None:
>              site_dirs = [
>                  os.path.expanduser(s.strip()) for s in 
> self.site_dirs.split(',')

This code will break on other people's installations, in that it will not 
be able to tell you're installing to a non-"site" directory unless you 
explicitly provide an --install-dir on the command line.  It will thus 
create a non-working easy-install.pth, and will fail to warn the user that 
'require()' is needed.