Hello, I have some materials for a project that I am working on that I keep in a source code control system (svn now, but I'm experimenting with mercurial). I want to install these things from the repository, but not into site-packages/ as Distutils wants to do.
For instance there are some administrative scripts I want to put in ~/ admin/ and some programs that I want in ~/public_html/ . I also want to run some post-install routines (for instance, reset the database tables on my development machine). So I'm looking for a tool to take things from a repository and install them into place. Something like: install_from_repository.py -version "1.2.7" if there is a bug in 1.2.7 that I need to work on. Some of the things that I am looking for are like what setup.py does (for instance, changing the #! line on scripts or having a convenient .cfg file). But as I understand it setup only targets installing below sys.prefix; is that right? I can write routines for myself but other people must need to do these things also and a tested solution is obviously better. Is there such a tool? Thanks for any help, Jim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
