[Distutils] Bug in easy_install?

[Jim Fulton]

If I give easy_install

- an ordinary spec (e.g. "demo")

- an -f option that points to a local directory containing a bunch of
   eggs and that is not on sys,path,

- ask it to install to some directory (-d), and

- use the -m option

it doesn't copy eggs found to the install directory even though
the source directory isn't on sys.path.   The logic for deciding whether
to copy seems to be:

         # Installation is also needed if file in tmpdir or is not an  
egg
         install_needed = install_needed or os.path.dirname(download)  
== tmpdir
         install_needed = install_needed or not download.endswith 
('.egg')

where install_needed starts out as false in this case because the
spec is not a url.  The second part has no effect because the
value if the download variable ends in .egg.

The --always-copy documentation hints that distributions will be
copied unless they are found in a directory sys.path, but I see no
check.

Why are the eggs not copied?

Jim

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