Hello Jim, > 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? Have a look at http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html, specially http://docs.python.org/dist/node13.html and http://docs.python.org/inst/alt-install-windows.html
HTH, -- Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://pythonwise.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
