[Distutils] easy_install command arguments not propagated when installing source distributions

[P.J. Eby]

At 12:23 PM 9/23/2010 -0700, Jason R. Coombs wrote:
>I understand the challenge here - setuptools is launching setup.py from the
>source distribution for jaraco.compat, and setup.py doesn't accept
>parameters for 'allow_hosts' and 'find_links'.

Hm.  This is actually a bit of a hole with respect to 
--allow-hosts.  I'll have to see if there's a way to pass that 
information through (probably not as a setup.cfg file, though).


>Is there any way that we can use source distributions in this environment
>(without customizing each source distribution for the environment)? If not,
>perhaps an improvement could be added to setuptools to populate a setup.cfg
>file when installing source distributions to include the easy_install flags
>supplied to the requiring install.

In the meantime, one quick fix you could implement is to add a 
distutils.cfg to the Lib/distutils/ directory of your Python 
installation(s).  If you want to do this in a (semi-)automated way, you can
run this in any project source directory:

     python setup.py saveopts -g easy_install [options to save]

This will save whatever options you give to the global config file for you.