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I’ve reviewed the last patch. It looks like the code only installs to the global site-packages, and there is no support to install to the user site-packages or to another arbitrary location.
On Windows, normal users seem to be able to write to the global site-packages (see #12260), but on other OSes with a proper rights model <wink> that won’t do. Luckily, PEP 370 brings us user site-packages (currently poorly documented, see #8617 and #10745), but only for 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x. It looks like Tarek is ready to drop 2.4 compatibility for distutils2, so the question is: what to do under 2.5?
Generally, I don’t see why develop could not install to any directory. We want a default invocation without options to Just Work™, finding a writable directory already on sys.path and writing into it, but that doesn’t exclude letting the user do what they want. |
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2011-07-12 14:48:17 | eric.araujo | set | recipients:
+ eric.araujo, tarek, carljm, meatballhat, Peter.Waller, alexis, michael.mulich, higery |
2011-07-12 14:48:17 | eric.araujo | set | messageid: <1310482097.63.0.0753150265851.issue8668@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2011-07-12 14:48:16 | eric.araujo | link | issue8668 messages |
2011-07-12 14:48:16 | eric.araujo | create | |
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