Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; '(at': 0.03; 'anyway.': 0.04; 'distutils': 0.05; 'exist,': 0.07; 'plenty': 0.07; 'prefix': 0.07; 'setup.py': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; "(i'd": 0.09; 'command.': 0.09; 'occasionally': 0.09; 'setuptools': 0.16; 'slave': 0.16; 'too?': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; '"you': 0.17; 'package.': 0.17; 'creates': 0.18; 'putting': 0.20; 'are.': 0.22; 'environments': 0.22; 'symbolic': 0.22; "i'd": 0.22; 'second': 0.24; 'least': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'thanks!': 0.26; 'opposed': 0.27; "doesn't": 0.28; "i'm": 0.29; 'install': 0.29; 'mode': 0.30; '(2)': 0.32; 'good.': 0.32; 'says': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'that,': 0.34; '(1)': 0.34; 'pm,': 0.35; 'received:192.168.0': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'anything': 0.36; 'too': 0.36; 'being': 0.37; 'virtual': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'received:192.168': 0.40; 'think': 0.40; 'link': 0.60; 'first': 0.61; 'kind': 0.61; 'thomas': 0.62; 'between': 0.63; 'worth': 0.63; 'show': 0.63; 'differences': 0.65; 'landscape': 0.65; 'received:192.168.0.3': 0.84; 'ships': 0.84; 'thing,': 0.84 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:58:22 -0600 From: Evan Driscoll User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Re: Managing multiple packages References: <50ABF52B.1080101@wisc.edu> <20121123002229.GA4908@taris.box> In-Reply-To: <20121123002229.GA4908@taris.box> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1353981515 news.xs4all.nl 6858 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:48265 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:33958 On 11/22/2012 06:22 PM, Thomas Bach wrote: > I am using virtual environments and do a > > python setup.py develop > > on each package. This just creates a symbolic link to the package and > all edits show up immediately. That's awesome; I didn't know about the 'develop' command. Thanks! Is that just a setuptools thing, or can you do it with distutils too? I didn't see anything too promising so I'm not so hopeful, but I figured I'd ask anyway. I'm also pretty confused about the distutils/setuptools/distribute/distutils2 landscape and what the differences are (at least between the first 3) and what their relationships with standard Python are. (I'd prefer to use distutils because (1) it ships with Python as opposed to being something extra to install (2) setuptools annoys me being the only think I can remember that, when you tell it to install to a prefix that doesn't exist, says "you want me to MAKE DIRECTORIES?! what are you, some kind of slave driver?!". Admittedly that second reason is not so rational and very occasionally putting up with that in exchange for development mode is plenty worth it, but being able to shun setuptools would make me feel good. :-)) Evan