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| author | PJ Eby <distutils-sig@python.org> | 2006-04-28 18:13:46 +0000 |
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| committer | PJ Eby <distutils-sig@python.org> | 2006-04-28 18:13:46 +0000 |
| commit | dcd12bd1088713adb87cfc1344ca30b10869ae36 (patch) | |
| tree | 54b2223df05a553a8418e05d6fb5c24b13f7071f /EasyInstall.txt | |
| parent | 4e8180190bf443b6389f064886321fcdeccf6ea4 (diff) | |
| download | python-setuptools-git-dcd12bd1088713adb87cfc1344ca30b10869ae36.tar.gz | |
Backport doc fixes and 2.4-only -m safety check to 0.6 branch
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branch : setuptools-0.6
extra : convert_revision : svn%3A6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771/sandbox/branches/setuptools-0.6%4045791
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| -rwxr-xr-x | EasyInstall.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/EasyInstall.txt b/EasyInstall.txt index 84044f1d..f2682dda 100755 --- a/EasyInstall.txt +++ b/EasyInstall.txt @@ -545,9 +545,7 @@ The current analysis approach is fairly conservative; it currenly looks for: * Possible use of ``inspect`` functions that expect to manipulate source files (e.g. ``inspect.getsource()``) - * Any data files or C extensions (this restriction will be removed in a future - release, once the ``pkg_resources`` runtime has been hardened for multi-user - environments) + * Top-level modules that might be scripts used with ``python -m`` (Python 2.4) If any of the above are found in the package being installed, EasyInstall will assume that the package cannot be safely run from a zipfile, and unzip it to @@ -782,7 +780,7 @@ Command-Line Options EasyInstall will not actually build or install the requested projects or their dependencies; it will just find and extract them for you. See `Editing and Viewing Source Packages`_ above for more details. - + ``--build-directory=DIR, -b DIR`` (UPDATED in 0.6a1) Set the directory used to build source packages. If a package is built from a source distribution or checkout, it will be extracted to a @@ -1081,7 +1079,7 @@ already have them:: [install] install_lib = ~/py-lib install_scripts = ~/bin - + Be sure to do this *before* you try to run the ``ez_setup.py`` installation script. Then, follow the standard `installation instructions`_, but make sure that ``~/py-lib`` is listed in your ``PYTHONPATH`` environment variable. |
