[Distutils] Installing via ez_setup.py reports error
Nathan R. Yergler
nathan at yergler.net
Mon May 22 16:37:35 CEST 2006
I'm working on increasing my setuptools-foo-zen-karma-whatever, and have
a question. According to the docs at
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#installation-instructions,
you just need to download ez_setup.py and run it to install setuptools.
I'm trying to install to a custom location. When I run the following
command:
$ PYTHONPATH=lib/ python ez_setup.py --script-dir bin/ --install-dir
lib/ -a --site-dirs lib/
setuptools is installed as requested, but the following error is reported
Installed /home/nathan/Projects/zope.i18n/lib/setuptools-0.6b1-py2.4.egg
Processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6b1
error: No urls, filenames, or requirements specified (see --help)
On a separate topic, echoing Jim's comments regarding paths, it seems
silly that when I use the following command (omitting the explicit
PYTHONPATH):
$ python ez_setup.py --script-dir bin/ --install-dir lib/ -a --site-dirs
lib/
I'm told that ./lib is not on sys.path; isn't the point of site-dirs to
assert that a directory *will be* on the Python path? I'll be the first
to acknowledge that I may be missing some fundamental point here.
Thanks,
Nathan
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