>> If you always use --single-version-externally-managed with easy_install, >> it will stop editing .pth files on installation. > > It's --multi-version (-m) that does that. > --single-version-externally-managed is a "setup.py install" option. > > Both have the effect of not editing .pth files, but they do so in > different ways. The "setup.py install" option causes it to install in a > distutils-compatible layout, whereas --multi-version simply drops .egg > files or directories in the target location and leaves it to the user > (or the generated script wrappers) to add them to sys.path.
Ah, ok. Is there also an easy_install invocation that unpacks the zip file into some location of sys.path (which then wouldn't require editing sys.path)? Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
