[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008 (original) (raw)

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Sun May 4 16:14:59 CEST 2008 

glyph> As I've said a dozen times in this thread already, the feature
glyph> I'd like to get from a per-user installation location is that
glyph> 'setup.py install', or at least some completely canonical
glyph> distutils incantation, should work, by default, for non-root
glyph> users; ideally non-administrators on windows as well as non-root
glyph> users on unixish platforms.

I'm unclear why anything needs changing then. At work we have idiosyncratic central install locations for everything, not just Python. None of this stuff is installed by root. When I want to install some package to test without polluting the central waters I simply run setup.py install with a --prefix arg then set PYTHONPATH to pick up my stuff before the central stuff. I see no reason to change the behavior of setup.py's install command. It gives you the flexibility needed to handle a number of different scenarios.

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