setuptools is for the users who use a package produced by someone. disutils is for users who produce the package.
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Amit Sethi <amit.pureene...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > I am really confused as to how setuptools and distutils work. > Basically what i want to achieve is be able to install packages in my > local environment and not globally ( just a preference ) . I know I > can use virtualenv and distribute but i just want to do some simple > testing and don't really want to setup a virtualenv for that. > > The usual practice I adopted for this was that in setup.py I would > change the lines > from setuptools import setup > to > from distutils.core import setup > this way i can use > > python setup.py develop instead of python setup.py install > and it will install the package in the same directory > > but it turns out when i use python setup.py develop > in this fashion while this particular package is installed locally all > other packages acquired from pypi are installed in the usual way . Is > there any way i can solve that make it install all packages locally .. > > Thanks > Amit > > -- > A-M-I-T S|S > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
