On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Brian Warner <war...@lothar.com> wrote: > On 6/22/10 10:35 AM, Peter Westlake wrote: > > >> I downloaded it and typed "python setup.py build", and it went off and >> started building a copy of Twisted 10.0! Will that be installed on my >> system, or will it only affect the Tahoe build? > > Using "setup.py build" should not affect anything outside of your source > directory: it should create a Twisted .egg and store/use it in the > support/lib subdir of your Tahoe source checkout. Tahoe should be the > only thing that sees the new Twisted. > > In contrast, I suspect that "setup.py install" *would* install all the > dependencies (as well as Tahoe itself) onto your system. > > In general, just don't run anything as root, and you should be ok. >
Well there's also virtualenv — won't it help? _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
