On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2016-06-07 09:53, Erik Bray wrote: >> >> $ ./setup.py install --root=root > > > Well, it seems that setuptools behaves completely differently if --root is > set, no idea why...
I explained this is because --root implicitly disables easy_install > With --root=/tmp > > [...] > copying banshees.txt -> /tmp/usr/local/src/sage-git/local/shared/siouxsie > [...] > > Without --root > > [...] > installing package data to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg > [...] > copying banshees.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/shared/siouxsie > [...] > >> pip install . > > > This does the right thing: > > $ pip install . --verbose > > [...] > copying banshees.txt -> /usr/local/src/sage-git/local/shared/siouxsie > [...] > > So the conclusion is that a plain "./setup.py install" does *not* support > data_files in a reasonable way, but "pip install ." does. You have to admit > that this is at least confusing... Absolutely! I'm trying (when i get the time) to get this fixed: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/529 It's an uphill battle against years of backwards-compatibilty (that would be broken). The fix I proposed is a workaround that doesn't break backwards compat, but does make things a little easier. This is one of several reasons I (and most other people in the Python packaging development) advise against running `pip install .`. A lot of the historical advice about Python packaging has yet to catch up with this though! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
