[Python-ideas] Add a site.cfg to keep a persistent list of paths (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 00:12:16 CEST 2010

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello There's one feature I want to add in distutils2: the develop command setuptools provides. Basically it adds a "link" file into site-packages, and does some magic at startup to load the path that is contained in the link file. The use case is to be able to have a project added in the python path without installing it. The link file is a red herring -- setuptools adds an entry to easy-install.pth that points to the directory.  It would work equally as well to add a .pth file for the specific package (though .pth files append to the path, so if you already have a package installed and then a .pth file pointing to a development version, then it won't work as expected, hence the magic in easy-install.pth).

Yes, or a develop.pth file containing those paths, like Carl proposed on IRC. a .cfg is not really helping indeed.

But we would need to have the metadata built and stored somewhere. A specific directory maybe for them.

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